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Automatic generation of synthesis units for trainable text-to-speech systems

Hon et al., 1998

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7488096140853669849
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Hon H
Acero A
Huang X
Liu J
Plumpe M
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Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'98 (Cat. No. 98CH36181)

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The Whistler text-to-speech engine was designed so that we can automatically construct the model parameters from training data. This paper describes in detail the design issues of constructing the synthesis unit inventory automatically from speech databases. The …
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