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Traditional concatenative speech synthesizers equipped with a small amount of speech segments suffer from the lack of naturalness. On the other hand, corpus-based speech synthesizers are able to produce much more natural speech. This paper presents a comparison of two new unit-selection methods in the corpus-based speech synthesis. An experimental comparison of comprehensibility and naturalness of all three approaches is provided here. The results are compared with one widely-used unit-selection method.
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Batůšek, R., Gaura, P. (2003). A Comparison of Unit Selection Techniques in Limited Domain Speech Synthesis. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2807. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39398-6_35
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