A minimum v/u error approach to F0 generation in HMM-based TTS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 408-411

  Qian, Yao ^a   Soong, Frank ^a   Wang, Miaomiao ^a,b   Wu, Zhizheng ^a,c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

HMM based TTS; Speech synthesis; v u decision

Indexed keywords

FEATURE VECTORS; HMM MODELS; HMM-BASED TTS; KEY FACTORS; NEW APPROACHES; PITCH-TRACKING; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SWITCHING POINTS; VOICE QUALITY;

ERRORS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450169782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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