Performance evaluation of the speaker-independent HMM-based speech synthesis system "HTS-2007" for the Blizzard Challenge 2007

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3957-3960

  Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   Nose, Takashi ^b   Zen, Heiga ^c   Toda, Tomoki ^d   Tokuda, Keiichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blizzard Challenge; HMM; HTS; Speaker adaptation; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

BLIZZARD CHALLENGE; HMM; HTS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH;

EID: 51449103919     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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