Combined prosody and candidate unit selections for corpus-based text-to-speech systems

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 141-144

  Campillo Díaz, Francisco ^a   Banga, Eduardo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; COST FUNCTIONS; SPEECH;

CORPUS-BASED; PITCH CONTOURS; SPEECH SIGNALS; STAGED PROCESS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; UNIT SELECTION;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009242619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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