OBJECTIVE DISTANCE MEASURES FOR ASSESSING CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 611-614

  Chen, Jing Dong ^a   Campbell, Nick ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BISPECTRA; CEPSTRUM; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; DEGREE OF CORRELATIONS; DISTANCE MEASURE; LOG SPECTRUMS; MELLIN TRANSFORM; SPEECH SIGNALS; SYNTHESISED;

WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85135263974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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