Minimum generation error criterion considering global/local variance for HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4621-4624

  Wu, Yi Jian ^a   Zen, Heiga ^a   Nankaku, Yoshihiko ^a   Tokuda, Keüchi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Global variance; HMM; Local variance; Minimum generation error; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GLOBAL VARIANCE; HMM; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LOCAL VARIANCE; MINIMUM GENERATION ERROR;

SPEECH;

EID: 51449106803     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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