A Hybrid Text-to-Speech System That Combines Concatenative and Statistical Synthesis Units - Tiomkin, S; Malah, D; Shechtman, S; Kons, Z (IEEE transactions on audio, speech, and language processing, 2011)
Keywords: Applied sciences; Concatenative text-to-speech (CTTS); Discontinuity; dynamic path; Dynamics; Exact sciences and technology; Footprints; Heuristic algorithms; Hidden Markov models; Hybrid power systems; hybrid TTS; Information, signal and communications theory; Natural languages; Segments; Signal processing; Speech; Speech processing; Speech recognition; statistical TTS; Synthesis; Telecommunications and information theory; TTS synthesis; statistical TTS; Segmentation; Sound quality; dynamic path; hybrid TTS; Speech synthesis; Algorithm; Hybrid system; Concatenative text-to-speech (CTTS); Linguistic analysis; Concatenation; TTS synthesis; Database; System synthesis