Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham
Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham
Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham
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THE UNIVERSITY<br />
OF BIRMINGHAM<br />
Sub-Word Concatenation<br />
SCHOOL OF<br />
ELECTRONIC &<br />
ELECTRICAL<br />
ENGINEERING<br />
! Limitations <strong>of</strong> word-based methods suggest<br />
concatenative speech <strong>synthesis</strong> based on subword<br />
units.<br />
! Need well-annotated, phonetically-balanced<br />
corpus <strong>of</strong> recordings <strong>of</strong> speech<br />
! Extract fragments from waveforms in the corpus<br />
which represent ‘basic units’ <strong>of</strong> speech<br />
Digital Systems<br />
&<br />
Vision Processing<br />
! These are concatenated and used for speech<br />
<strong>synthesis</strong><br />
Inaugural Lecture<br />
22-Nov-00<br />
SLIDE 15
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