A genetic algorithm for unit selection based speech synthesis
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We describe the use of a Genetic Algorithm (GA) for the Unit Selection problem, which is essentially a search/optimization problem. The various operators for the GA have been defined and comparison with optimization reached by hill climbing approaches is presented.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004