... model-ing framework for unit selection inspired by auto-matic speech recognition. Given appropriate data,techniques based on that framework can result in amore accurate unit selection, thereby ... component, unit selection, deter-mines in a set of recorded acoustic units corre-sponding to phones (Hunt and Black, 1996) or half-phones (Beutnagel et al., 1999a) the sequence ofunits that ... signalfrom the unit sequence chosen by unit selectionusing simple concatenation or other methods suchas PSOLA (Moulines and Charpentier, 1990) andHNM (Stylianou et al., 1997). Unit selection...