Hybrid voice conversion of unit selection and generation using prosody dependent HMM

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E89-D, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2775-2782

  Okubo, Tadashi ^a   Mochizuki, Ryo ^a,b   Kobayashi, Tetsunori ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM; MLLR; Speech synthesis; Unit selection; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TARGET WAVEFORMS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33845586220     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.11.2775     Document Type: Article

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