Minimum generation error linear regression based model adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3953-3956

  Qin, Long ^a   Wu, Yi Jian ^b   Ling, Zhen Hua ^c   Wang, Ren Hua ^c   Dai, Li Rong ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Linear regression; Minimum generation error; Model adaptation; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BLOCK CODES; ERRORS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LINEAR REGRESSION; MINIMUM GENERATION ERROR; MODEL ADAPTATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 51449098031     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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