CHOOSE THE BEST TO MODIFY THE LEAST: A NEW GENERATION CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS SYSTEM

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 2291-2294

  Balestri, Marcello ^a   Pacchiotti, Alberto ^a   Quazza, Silvia ^a   Salza, Pier Luigi ^a   Sandri, Stefano ^a  

^a CSELT   (Italy)

Author keywords

corpus based concatenative synthesis

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC DATABASE; AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; CORPUS-BASED; CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; CORPUS-BASED CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS; DATABASE DESIGN; MULTI LANGUAGES; PROCESSING TOOLS; PROSODIC MODIFICATIONS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85135259940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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