Duration Study for the Bell Laboratories Mandarin Text-to-speech System
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We present in this paper the methodology and results of a duration study designed for the Mandarin Chinese Text-to-speech system of Bell Laboratories. A greedy algorithm is used to select text from on-line corpora to maximize the coverage of factors that are important to the study of duration. The duration model and some interesting results will be discussed.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013