Methods for improving the quality of syllable based speech synthesis

Date Issued
01-12-2008
Author(s)
Venugopalakrishna, Y. R.
Vinodh, M. V.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Ramalingam, C. S.
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Abstract
Our earlier work [1] on speech synthesis has shown that syllablesproduce reasonably natural quality speech. Nevertheless, artifacts are present due to discontinuities pitch, energy, and formant trajectories at the joining point the units. In this paper, we present some minimal signal techniques for reducing these artifacts.©2008 IEEE.
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