OPTIMISING UNIT SELECTION WITH VOICE SOURCE AND FORMANTS IN THE CHATR SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 537-540

  Ding, Wen ^a   Campbell, Nick ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CORPUS-BASED; HIGH QUALITY; MINIMISATION; PROSODICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION; VOICE SOURCES; WAVEFORMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85041486134     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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