Constrained structural maximum a posteriori linear regression for average-voice-based speech synthesis

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2286-2289

  Nakano, Yuji ^a   Tachibana, Makoto ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Average voice model; HMM based speech synthesis; HSMM; MLLR; Speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AVERAGE VOICE MODELS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HSMM; MLLR; SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

SPEECH;

EID: 34547496746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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