A statistically motivated database pruning technique for unit selection synthesis

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 125-128

  Rutten, Peter ^a   Aylett, Matthew ^a   Fackrell, Justin ^a   Taylor, Paul ^a  

^a Rhetorical Systems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DATABASE PRUNING; DATABASE REDUCTION; IDEAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SIZE; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; QUALITY LOSS; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; UNIT SELECTION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85009273523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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