Rich context modeling for high quality HMM-based TTS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1755-1758

  Yan, Zhi Jie ^a   Qian, Yao ^a   Soong, Frank K ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

HMM based TTS; Rich context modeling

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT MODELING; CONTEXT MODELS; CONTEXT-BASED; CONVENTIONAL MODELS; CRISP OUTPUT; HIGH QUALITY; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PRE-SELECTION; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SMOOTHING PROBLEMS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPEECH QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE PREFERENCE TEST; TRAINING PROCEDURES; TRAINING SPEECH;

DECISION TREES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450161678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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