Details of the nitech HMM-based speech synthesis system for the blizzard challenge 2005

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 325-333

  Zen, Heiga ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^b   Nakamura, Masaru ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blizzard challenge 2005; GV; HMM based speech synthesis; HSMM; STRAIGHT

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC MODELING; LISTENING TESTS; SPEECH PARAMETER GENERATION ALGORITHMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33846405723     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-1.1.325     Document Type: Article

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