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Algebraic Models of Speech Segment Databases

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2001)

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The paper deals with the problem of choosing and optimizing the inventories of speechse gments (especially with respect to the concatenative speech synthesis). We offer taxonomy of the segment databases based on elementary properties of the segments in relation to a basic speech corpus. Next, we deal with a general abstract formulation of the problem and briefly discuss its algorithmic solution and applications.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Ivan Kopeček

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Plzeň, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Univerzitní 22, 306-14, Plzeň, Czech Republic

    Václav Matoušek , Pavel Mautner , Roman Mouček  & Karel Taušer , ,  & 

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Kopeček, I. (2001). Algebraic Models of Speech Segment Databases. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Mouček, R., Taušer, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2166. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44805-5_27

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