Autoregressive HMMs for speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 400-403

  Shannon, Matt ^a   Byrne, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic modelling; HMM based speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELLING; AUTO-REGRESSIVE; EFFECTIVE SYNTHESIS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; METAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STORMS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 70450175584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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