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Selecting non-uniform units from a very large corpus for concatenative speech synthesizer

Chu et al., 2001

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12071708927193188901
Author
Chu M
Peng H
Yang H
Chang E
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2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proceedings (Cat. No. 01CH37221)

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This paper proposes a two-module text to speech system (TTS) structure, which bypasses the prosody model that predicts numerical prosodic parameters for synthetic speech. Instead, many instances of each basic unit from a large speech corpus are classified into …
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