Concatenative Speech Synthesis using a Harmonic plus Noise Model

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

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 267-272

  Stylianou, Yannis ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AND FILTERS; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HARMONIC PLUS NOISE MODEL; HARMONICS COMPONENT; NOISE COMPONENTS; PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS; SMOOTHING DISCONTINUITIES; SPEECH SIGNALS; TIME-VARYING HARMONICS; TWO-COMPONENT;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85133551970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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