HMM-BASED SMOOTHING FOR CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Plumpe, M ^a   Acero, A ^a   Hon, H ^a   Huang, X ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC QUALITY; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GAUSSIAN RANDOM VECTORS; HMM-BASED; OUTPUT DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER VECTORS; PILOT STUDIES; SPEECH OUTPUT; SYNTHESISED; TEXT-TO-SPEECH ENGINES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0003162919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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