Parameterization of vocal fry in HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1775-1778

  Silén, Hanna ^a   Helander, Elina ^a   Nurminen, Jani ^b   Gabbouj, Moncef ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden markov models; Mixed excitation; Speech synthesis; STRAIGHT; Vocal fry

Indexed keywords

APERIODICITY; HIGH QUALITY; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; MIXED EXCITATION; SPEECH QUALITY; SYNTHESIS EXPERIMENT; VOICE QUALITY;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450183498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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