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<p>Hello!</p>
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<p>There is a paper that describes unit clustering:</p>
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<a id="LPUrlAnchor_15041225952660.014977715294677285" style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/papers/ES97units.pdf" target="_blank">AUTOMATICALLY CLUSTERING SIMILAR UNITS FOR UNIT SELECTION ...</a></div>
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AUTOMATICALLY CLUSTERING SIMILAR UNITS FOR UNIT SELECTION IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS. Alan W Black and Paul Taylor Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of ...</div>
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<p>May I ask if Mary has this kind of selection included?</p>
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<p>Thank you very much!<br>
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