A database design for a concatenative speech synthesis system for the disabled

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Iida, Akemi ^a,b   Campbell, Nick ^b,c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION AIDS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS; DATABASE DESIGN; PHONETICALLY BALANCED; SPEECH CORPORA; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TEXT MATERIALS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85132576123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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