A Text-to-Speech Platform for Variable Length Optimal Unit Searching Using Perceptual Cost Functions

4th ITRW on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Lee, Minkyu ^a   Lopresti, Daniel P ^a   Olive, Joseph P ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BELL LABS; CORPUS-BASED; COST-FUNCTION; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH PLATFORM; SPEECH QUALITY; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT TO SPEECH; TTS SYSTEMS; VARIABLE LENGTH;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 85133425540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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