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Statistical parametric speech synthesis, based on hidden Markov model-like models, has become competitive with established concatenative techniques over the last few years. This paper offers a non-mathematical introduction to this method of speech synthesis. It is intended to be complementary to the wide range of excellent technical publications already available. Rather than offer a comprehensive literature review, this paper instead gives a small number of carefully chosen references which are good starting points for further reading.
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King, S. An introduction to statistical parametric speech synthesis. Sadhana 36, 837–852 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-011-0048-y
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