A Concatenative Mandarin TTS System without Prosody Model and Prosody Modification

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Chu, Min ^a   Peng, Hu ^a   Chang, Eric ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

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Indexed keywords

FINAL DECISION; MULTI-TIER; NON-UNIFORM; PROSODY MODELING; PROSODY PREDICTIONS; SELECTION SCHEME; SPEECH CORPORA; SYNTHESISED; TTS SYSTEMS; UNIT SELECTION;

EID: 85039405250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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