Measuring the gap between HMM-based ASR and TTS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1391-1394

  Dines, John ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^b   King, Simon ^b  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Unified models

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; EUROPEAN PROJECT; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MODELLING; STATISTICAL MODELS; SYSTEM DESIGN; TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TTS SYSTEMS; UNIFIED MODEL; UNIFIED MODELS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER CRIME; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; REMELTING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450183638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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