XIMERA: A NEW TTS FROM ATR BASED ON CORPUS-BASED TECHNOLOGIES

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 179-184

  Kawai, Hisashi ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a,b   Ni, Jinfu ^a   Tsuzaki, Minoru ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a,b  

^a ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CORPUS-BASED; COST-FUNCTION; HMM-BASED; LARGE CORPORA; PROMINENT FEATURES; PROSODIC PARAMETER; SEGMENT SELECTION; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; SYSTEMS UNDER DEVELOPMENT; TTS SYSTEMS;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 85123861026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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