A NOVEL DISCONTINUITY METRIC FOR UNIT SELECTION TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 133-138

  Bellegarda, Jerome R ^a  

^a APPLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; COST FUNCTIONS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC WAVEFORM; COST-FUNCTION; FORMANT FREQUENCY; INTER-FRAME; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; PROSODICS; SIGNAL LEVEL; SPEECH SIGNALS; UNIT SELECTION; USER PERCEPTIONS;

FOURIER ANALYSIS;

EID: 85032421249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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