State mapping based method for cross-lingual speaker adaptation in HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 528-531

  Wu, Yi Jian ^a,b   Nankaku, Yoshihiko ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TTS Group   (China)

Author keywords

Cross lingual speaker adaptation; HMM; Speech synthesis; State mapping

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LINGUAL; DATA MAPPINGS; HMM; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; MAPPING INFORMATION; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEECH QUALITY; TARGET LANGUAGE; VOICE MODEL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELEPHONE SETS;

MAPPING;

EID: 70450192740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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