A Bayesian approach to HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4029-4032

  Hashimoto, Kei ^a   Zen, Heiga ^a,c   Nankaku, Yoshihiko ^a   Masuko, Takashi ^b,c   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Context clustering; Cross validation; HMM based speech synthesis; Prior distribution; Variational bayesian method

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT CLUSTERING; CROSS VALIDATION; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; VARIATIONAL BAYESIAN METHOD;

ACOUSTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 70349223889     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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