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Construction of the acoustic inventory for a greek text-to-speech concatenative synthesis system

Christogiannis et al., 2000

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349553020984093445
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Christogiannis C
Varvarigou T
Zappa A
Vamvakoulas Y
Shih C
Arvaniti A
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2000 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proceedings (Cat. No. 00CH37100)

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The development of the Greek text-to-speech (TTS) system by NTUA is based on the method of concatenative synthesis and follows the Bell Labs approach to this technique. Concatenative synthesis is one of the simplest methods for speech synthesis and at the …
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