Title :
Scalable Concatenative Speech Synthesis Based on the Plural Unit Selection and Fusion Method
Author :
Tamura, Masatsune ; Mizutani, Tatsuya ; Kagoshima, Takehiko
Author_Institution :
Multimedia Lab., Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan
fDate :
March 18-23, 2005
Keywords :
sensor fusion; speech synthesis; very large databases; concatenative speech synthesis; fusion method; half-size waveform database; high-quality speech synthesis; large databases; offline unit fusion; pitch-cycle waveforms; plural unit selection; scalable concatenative speech synthesizer; voiced segments; Computational efficiency; Cost function; Fusion power generation; Laboratories; Multimedia databases; Natural languages; Research and development; Scalability; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8874-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415125
