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INTERSPEECH
2010
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A novel hybrid approach for Mandarin speech synthesis
The paper investigates a new method to solve concatenation problems of Mandarin speech synthesis which is based on the hybrid approach of HMM-based speech synthesis and unit selec...
Shifeng Pan, Meng Zhang, Jianhua Tao
SPEECH
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Analysis of statistical parametric and unit selection speech synthesis systems applied to emotional speech
We have applied two state-of-the-art speech synthesis techniques (unit selection and HMM-based synthesis) to the synthesis of emotional speech. A series of carefully designed perc...
Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon Ki...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Unit Selection for Very Low Bit Rate Coding at 500 bits/sec
This paper presents a new unit selection process for Very Low Bit Rate speech encoding around 500 bits/sec. The encoding is based on speech recognition and speech synthesis technol...
Marc Padellini, François Capman, Genevi&egr...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Recording and Annotation of Speech Corpus for Czech Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
The paper gives a brief summarisation of preparation and recording of a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for Czech unit selection text-to-speech synthesis. Special ...
Jindrich Matousek, Jan Romportl
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
Abstract. The purpose of the present paper is to examine the relationships between target and concatenation costs and the quality (with focus on naturalness) of generated speech. S...
Daniel Tihelka, Jindrich Matousek, Jirí Kal...