Personalizing a Speech Synthesizer by Voice Adaptation

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 225-230

  Kain, Alexander ^a   Macon, Mike ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADAPTATION SYSTEMS; CONVERSION FUNCTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; PERSONALIZATIONS; PROBABILISTICS; SPECTRA'S; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; TARGET SPEAKER; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; TRAINING DATA;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 58649093745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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