Context-dependent boundary model for refining boundaries segmentation of TTS units

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E89-D, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1082-1091

  Wang, Lijuan ^a   Zhao, Yong ^b   Chu, Min ^b,c,d   Soong, Frank K ^b,e   Zhou, Jianlai ^b   Cao, Zhigang ^{a,c,f,g,h,i,j,k,l}  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c IEEE

^d Acoustical Society of China   (China)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f Electronic Engineering Department

^g National Key Leboratory on Microwave and Degital Communication

^h Chinese Institute of Communication (CIC)   (China)

ⁱ Electronic Engineering Department ^*

^j Chinese Institute of Electronics CIE   (China)

^k Beijing Institute of Gtaphic Communication   (China)

^l China Satellite Communication Broadcasting and Television Association   (China)

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Author keywords

CART; Context dependent boundary model; HMM adaptation; Segment refinement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CART; CONTEXT-DEPENDENT BOUNDARY MODEL; HMM ADAPTATION; SEGMENT REFINEMENT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33645780899     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.3.1082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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