Basic Principles of Speech Synthesis

Springer Handbooks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 413-428

  Schroeter, Juergen ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic Time Warping; Spectral Envelope; Speech Synthesis; Synthetic Speech; Vocal Tract

Indexed keywords

EID: 85075916050     PISSN: 25228692     EISSN: 25228706     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49127-9_19     Document Type: Chapter

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