A cross-language state mapping approach to bilingual (Mandarin-English) TTS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4641-4644

  Liang, Hui ^a,b   Qian, Yao ^a   Soong, Frank K ^a   Liu, Gongshen ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bilingual; HMM based TTS; New language synthesis; State mapping

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; TARGETS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BILINGUAL; HMM-BASED TTS; NEW LANGUAGE SYNTHESIS; STATE MAPPING; TARGET LANGUAGES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 51449111086     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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