Building a Finnish Unit Selection TTS system

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 310-315

  Silen, Hanna ^a   Helander, Elina ^a   Koppinen, Konsta ^a   Gabbouj, Moncef ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; DATABASE CONSTRUCTION; DIPHONES; FINNISH; IMPLEMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION; NATURAL SPEECH; SELECTION BASED; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; TTS SYSTEMS; UNIT SELECTION;

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EID: 85101068595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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