AUTOMATICALLY CLUSTERING SIMILAR UNITS FOR UNIT SELECTION IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 601-604

  Black, Alan W ^a   Taylor, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CLASS-BASED; CLUSTER CENTERS; CLUSTERINGS; OPTIMAL PATHS; PROSODICS; SELECTION BASED; SUBWORD UNITS; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-BASED;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85133526552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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