Diphone Synthesis using Unit Selection

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

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 185-190

  Beutnagel, Mark ^a   Conkie, Alistair ^a   Syrdal, Ann K ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELEPHONE SETS;

BASIC SYNTHESIS UNITS; DIPHONES; LARGE DATABASE; MULTIPLE INSTANCES; SIMPLE++; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SYNTHESISED; T-SYSTEMS; UNIT CONCATENATION; UNIT SELECTION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85133503504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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