CU vocal: Corpus-based syllable concatenation for Chinese speech synthesis across domains and dialects

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2373-2376

  Meng, Helen M ^a   Keung, Chi Kin ^a   Siu, Kai Chung ^a   Fung, Tien Ying ^a   Ching, P C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CANTONESE; CHINESE DIALECTS; CHINESE TEXT; CORPUS-BASED; FREEFORMS; LISTENING TESTS; RESPONSE GENERATION; SOUTH CHINA;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009288219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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