A context clustering technique for average voice models

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 534-542

  Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   Tamura, Masatsune ^a   Masuko, Takashi ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^b   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Average voice model; Context clustering; Decision tree; HMM based speech synthesis; Speaker independent model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DECISION TREE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0038042801     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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