Removing Phase Mismatches in Concatenative Speech Synthesis

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 261-266

  Stylianou, Yannis ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

CENTER OF GRAVITY; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HARMONIC PLUS NOISE MODEL; INTER-FRAME; NOVEL METHODS; OFF-LINE APPROACHES; PHASE MISMATCH; SPEECH FRAMES; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85133501802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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