HMM adaptation and voice conversion for the synthesis of child speech: A comparison

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2627-2630

  Watts, Oliver ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   King, Simon ^a   Berkling, Kay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INLINE Internet Online Dienste GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Average voice models; Child speech; Festival; HMM based speech synthesis; HTS; Statistical parametric speech synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VOICE MODELS; AVERAGE-VOICE; FESTIVAL; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VOICE CONVERSION;

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450188371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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