Automatically clustering similar units for unit selection in speech synthesis.
Alan W. BlackPaul TaylorPublished in: EUROSPEECH (1997)
Keyphrases
- speech synthesis
- speech recognition
- text to speech
- clustering method
- clustering algorithm
- self organizing maps
- k means
- unsupervised manner
- similar objects
- automatically generated
- vocal tract
- processing units
- hierarchical clustering
- spectral clustering
- random selection
- selection strategy
- machine learning
- data clustering
- cluster analysis
- information theoretic
- distance metric
- outlier detection
- pattern recognition
- prosodic features
- homogeneous groups