Template based techniques for automatic segmentation of TTS unit database

We address the problem of automatic segmentation of the unit database in unit-selection based TTS and propose template based forced alignment segmentation in the one-pass dynamic programming (DP) framework with several variants: i) multi-template representation derived by modified K-means (MKM) algorithm, ii) context-independent and context-dependent templates for reduced multi-template representation, iii) segmental K-means algorithm with MKM...