Statistical parametric speech synthesis

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Black, Alan W ^a   Zen, Heiga ^b   Tokuda, Keiichi ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

GENERATION SYNTHESIS; HMM-BASED SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; UNIT SELECTION TECHNOLOGY;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547526960     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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