MODELING SEGMENTAL DURATIONS FOR JAPANESE TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS

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

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 317-322

  Venditti, Jennifer J ^a,b   van Santen, Jan P H ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; BELL LABS; EFFECT OF FACTORS; JAPANESE TEXT; SPEECH DATABASE; SUMS OF PRODUCTS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85133510272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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