Synthesis Units for Conversational Speech - Using Phrasal Segments -
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This paper describes the use of phrase-sized segments for the concatenative synthesis of conversational speech and discusses the differences in selection criteria that become necessary when the source corpus contains several years of conversational speech samples. It claims that naturalsounding conversational speech can be reproduced by use of such phrase-sized chunks for concatenation, and that their physical adjacency in the speech enhances the sense of continuity in spite of their discrete origins in the corpus.
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