A novel HMM-based TTS system using both continuous HMMS and discrete HMMS

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Jian, Yu ^a   Meng, Zhang ^a   Jianhua, Tao ^a   Xia, Wang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov model; Speech processing; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CODEVECTORS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; VOICE QUALITY;

ALGORITHMS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547514452     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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