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A synthesis method based on concatenation of demisyllables and a residual excited vocal tract model.

Pearson et al., 1998

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9582894391955014678
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Pearson S
Kibre N
Niedzielski N
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ICSLP

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This paper describes the back-end of a new, flexible, high-quality TTS system. Preliminary results have demonstrated a highly natural and intelligible output. Although the system follows some standard methodologies, such as concatenation, we have introduced a …
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