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Developments in corpus-based speech synthesis: Approaching natural conversational speech

Campbell, 2005

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2244993565313410942
Author
Campbell N
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IEICE transactions on information and systems

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This paper describes the special demands of conversational speech in the context of corpus- based speech synthesis. The author proposed the CHATR system of prosody-based unit- selection for concatenative waveform synthesis seven years ago, and now extends this work …
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