APPLICATION-DEPENDENT PROSODIC MODELS FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND AUTOMATIC DESIGN OF LEARNING DATABASE CORPUS USING GENETIC ALGORITHM

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

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2511-2514

  Boeffard O ^a   Emerard, F ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SYNTACTICS;

AUTOMATIC DESIGN; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; BUILDING APPLICATIONS; IN-BUILDINGS; LEARNING DATABASE; PROSODIC MODELS; PROSODICS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SYNTHESIS DESIGN; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85135165756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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