A review article that makes some useful connections between HMM-based speech synthesis and unit selection.
Heiga Zen, Alan Black and Keiichi Tokuda “Statistical parametric speech synthesis” Speech Communication
Volume 51, Issue 11, November 2009, Pages 1039–1064 DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2009.04.004
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