Data-driven segment preselection in the IBM trainable speech synthesis system

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2609-2612

  Hamza, Wael ^a   Donovan, Robert ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; SEARCH ENGINES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DATA-DRIVEN ALGORITHM; DATABASE SEARCHES; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH SEGMENTS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS;

SPEECH;

EID: 85009274956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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