Acoustic model training based on linear transformation and MAP modification for HSMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1328-1331

  Ogata, Katsumi ^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; Speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METADATA; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TOPOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC MODEL TRAININGS; AVERAGE VOICE MODELS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HSMM; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER DEPENDENTS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 34547525896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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