Thousands of voices for HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 420-423

  Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   Usabaev, Bela ^b   King, Simon ^a   Watts, Oliver ^a   Dines, John ^c   Tian, Jilei ^d   Hu, Rile ^d   Guan, Yong ^d   Oura, Keiichiro ^e   Tokuda, Keiichi ^e   Karhila, Reima ^f   Kurimo, Mikko ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d Nokia ^*

^e NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

HMMs; Speaker adaptation; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE HMM; AVERAGE-VOICE; HIGH QUALITY; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HMMS; MODEL ADAPTATION; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEECH DATA; WALL STREET JOURNAL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; REMELTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450161300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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