Model adaptation approach to speech synthesis with diverse voices and styles

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yamagishi, Junichi ^a,b   Kobayashi, Takao ^a   Tachibana, Makoto ^a   Ogata, Katsumi ^a   Nakano, Yuji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Average voice; HMM; Speaker adaptation; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AVERAGE VOICE; DIVERSE VOICES; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547529978     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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