Prosodic Unit Selection Using an Imitation Speech Database

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Meron, Joram ^a  

^a Panasonic Corporation of North America   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; GENERATION SYSTEMS; PROSODICS; PROSODY GENERATIONS; RULE BASED; RULE-BASED METHOD; SELECTION METHODS; SPEECH DATABASE; UNIT SELECTION; WAVEFORMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85039172650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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