Second ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis September 12-15, 1994 Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY, USA

Optimal Coupling of Diphones

Alistair Conkie, Stephen Isard

Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, UK

We describe several ways of measuring spectral mismatch at diphone joins. We report on the effect for synthetic speech of choosing diphone boundaries so as to minimise the various different measures.

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Bibliographic reference.  Conkie, Alistair / Isard, Stephen (1994): "Optimal coupling of diphones", In SSW2-1994, 119-122.