A technique for controlling voice quality of synthetic speech using multiple regression HSMM

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2438-2441

  Tachibana, Makoto ^a   Nose, Takashi ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM based speech synthesis; HSMM; Multiple regression HMM; Voice quality control

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HIDDEN SEMI-MARKOV MODELS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HSMM; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PARAMETER VECTORS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE QUALITY CONTROLS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 44949155552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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