Halfphones: A Backoff Mechanism for Diphone Unit Selection Synthesis
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Diphone Backoff mechanisms in text-to-speech provide a means of ensuring that synthesis of the text takes place, even if some of the diphones in the text are missing in the speech database. This paper describes an automatic method for synthetically creating missing diphones from halfphones that are in the speech database.
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