Measuring Attribute Dissimilarity with HMM KL-Divergence for Speech Synthesis

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 206-210

  Zhao, Yong ^a   Zhang, Chengsuo ^b   Soong, Frank K ^a   Chu, Min ^a   Xiao, Xi ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

HMM; Kullback Leibler divergence; multi space probability distribution; multidimensional scaling; speech synthesis; target cost; unit selection

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONTEXT DEPENDENT; HMM; KL-DIVERGENCE; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; MULTI-SPACE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; TARGET COST; TTS SYSTEMS; UNIT SELECTION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 70349222530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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