State mapping for cross-language speaker adaptation in TTS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4273-4276

  Chen, Yi Ning ^a   Jiao, Yang ^a,b   Qian, Yao ^a   Soong, Frank K ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Cross language; HMM based TTS; Kullback Leibler divergence; Speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; CROSS LANGUAGE; HMM-BASED TTS; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION;

ACOUSTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION THEORY; PHOTOMAPPING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70349218937     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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