Full HMM training for minimizing generation error in synthesis

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wu, Yi Jian ^a   Wang, Ren Hua ^b   Soong, Frank ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

HMM; Maximum likelihood; Minimum generation error; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

MINIMUM GENERATION ERROR (MGE); TRAINING PROCESS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547517493     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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