Speech parameter generation algorithms for HMM-based speech synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 1315-1318

  Tokuda, Keiichi ^a   Yoshimura, Takayoshi ^a   Masuko, Takashi ^b   Kobayashi, Takao ^b   Kitamura, Tadashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DYNAMIC FEATURES; FORWARD / BACKWARD ALGORITHMS; GENERATION ALGORITHM; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; OBSERVATION VECTORS; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; STATE SEQUENCES; UNOBSERVABLE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; SPEECH PARAMETER GENERATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0033708106     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.861820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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