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Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
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Speech synthesis based on the Multiband Resynthesis OverLap-Add (MBROLA) algorithm produces high quality speech without requiring too much effort to design the diphone database, and using a low computational power. The main drawback of this algorithm is the slightly metallic sound or buzziness that can be perceived on voiced segments. We are working on a speech synthesizer based on the MBROLA algorithm, and trying to improve its speech quality by means of on an enhanced phase control strategy.
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Bibliographic reference. Etxebarria, B. / Hernáez, I. / Madariaga, I. / Navas, E. / Rodríguez, J. C. / Gándara, R. (1999): "Improving quality in a speech synthesizer based on the MBROLA algorithm", In EUROSPEECH'99, 2299-2302.