Minimum segmentation error based discriminative training for speech synthesis application

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Wu, Yi Jian ^a,b   Kawai, Hisashi ^a   Ni, Jinfu ^a   Wang, Ren Hua ^b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZED PROBABILISTIC DESCENT (GPD); MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR (MCE); MINIMUM SEGMENTATION ERROR (MSGE); SEGMENTATION ERRORS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 4544270860     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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