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Eide et al., 2006 - Google Patents

Towards pooled-speaker concatenative text-to-speech

Eide et al., 2006

Document ID
15083984254285508956
Author
Eide E
Picheny M
Publication year
Publication venue
2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings

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In this paper we explore the merging of data from various speakers in building a concatenative text-to-speech system. First, we investigate the pooling of data from multiple speakers for building statistical models to predict pitch and duration, and present listening …
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