An overview of nitech HMM-based speech synthesis system for Blizzard Challenge 2005

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 93-96

  Zen, Heiga ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE CODING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

GLOBAL VARIANCE; HIDDEN SEMI-MARKOV MODEL (HSMM); NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (NITECH-HTS);

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745215669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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