Hidden Markov-model-based trainable speech synthesizer

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-241

  Donovan, R E ^a   Woodland, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DECISION TREES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM);

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032651722     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.1999.0123     Document Type: Article

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