A deterministic plus stochastic model of the residual signal for improved parametric speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1779-1782

  Drugman, Thomas ^a   Wilfart, Geoffrey ^b   Dutoit, Thierry ^a  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b Research and Development   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Deterministic plus Stochastic model; HMM based speech synthesis; Residual modeling

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; FILTERED NOISE; HARMONIC PLUS NOISE MODEL; HIGH-PASS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LOW FREQUENCY; ORTHONORMAL BASIS; RESIDUAL MODEL; RESIDUAL SIGNALS; SPECTRAL BAND; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; STOCHASTIC COMPONENT; SUBJECTIVE TESTS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 70450204573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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