Personalizing synthetic voices for people with progressive speech disorders: Judging voice similarity

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1427-1430

  Creer, S M ^a   Cunningham, S P ^a   Green, P D ^a   Fatema, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HMM based speech synthesis; Voice banking; Voice similarity measure

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; CEPSTRAL; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; IN-BUILDINGS; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRONS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SPEECH DISORDERS; TARGET SPEAKER;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450160946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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