Two-band excitation for HMM-based speech synthesis

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 378-381

  Kim, Sang Jin ^a   Hahn, Minsoo ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Excitation model; HMM based speech synthesis; Maximum voiced frequency

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

EXCITATION SOURCES; NOISE SPEECH MODELS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33846406459     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-1.1.378     Document Type: Article

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