Acoustic measures vs. phonetic features as predictors of audible discontinuity in concatenative speech synthesis

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2621-2624

  Kawai, Hisashi ^a   Tsuzaki, Minoru ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUDIBLE DISCONTINUITIES; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PHONETIC FEATURES; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; WAVE FORMS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85009291810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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