HMM-based mixed-language (Mandarin-English) speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 13-16

  Qian, Yao ^a   Cao, Houwei ^a,b   Soong, Frank K ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

HMM based TTS; Mixed language speech synthesis; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE STUDENTS; ENGLISH WORDS; HMM-BASED TTS; MIXED-LANGUAGE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PERCEPTUAL TESTS; SOURCE LANGUAGES; SPEECH QUALITIES; TARGET LANGUAGES; TTS SYSTEMS;

DECISION TREES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 60849096384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CHINSL.2008.ECP.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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