PHONETIC ALIGNMENT: SPEECH SYNTHESIS BASED VS. HYBRID HMM/ANN

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Malfrere F ^a   Deroo, O ^a   Dutoit, T ^a  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HIGH QUALITY; LABELINGS; PHONETIC ALIGNMENT; SEGMENTATION TOOL; SIGNAL-ON; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH PATTERNS; SPEECH SIGNALS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; SYNTHETIC SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85128407266     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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