A trainable excitation model for HMM-based speech synthesis

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1125-1128

  Maia, R ^a   Toda, T ^a,b   Zen, H ^c   Nankaku, Y ^c   Tokuda, K ^a,c  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM; Speech processing; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CLOSED-LOOP; EXCITATION MODELING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; SIMPLE++; SPEECH PRODUCTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; WAVEFORMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 56149123116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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