Cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis

Proceedings - 2008 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-12

  Wu, Yi Jian ^a   King, Simon ^b   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross lingual; HMM based speech synthesis; Speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TARGETS; TELEPHONE SETS;

CONTEXT DEPENDENTS; CROSS-LINGUAL; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; MANDARIN CHINESE; MAPPING RULES; ONE-TO-ONE MAPPINGS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; TARGET SPEAKERS; TRIPHONE; VOICE MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 60849092922     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CHINSL.2008.ECP.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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