Residual prediction based on unit selection

Proceedings of ASRU 2005: 2005 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 369-374

  Sündermann, David ^a,b,c   Höge, Harald ^a   Bonafonte, Antonio ^b   Ney, Hermann ^d   Black, Alan W ^e  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATION; RESIDUAL PREDICTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33846195493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2005.1566484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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