CLUSTERGEN: A statistical parametric synthesizer using trajectory modeling

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1762-1765

  Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Speech synthesis; Statistical parametric synthesis; Trajectory HMMs

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TRAJECTORIES;

BUILDING ENVIRONMENT; LARGE DATABASE; OVERLAP-AND-ADD; PARAMETRIC MODELS; PARAMETRIC SYNTHESIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TRAJECTORY MODELING;

SPEECH;

EID: 44949232373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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