Local minimum generation error criterion for hybrid HMM speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 416-419

  Gonzalvo, Xavi ^a,b   Gutkin, Alexander ^c   Socoró, Joan Claudi ^b   Iriondo, Ignasi ^b   Taylor, Paul ^a  

^a Phonetic Arts Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^c Yahoo Europe   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HMM; Hybrid; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

ERROR CRITERION; HYBRID; HYBRID APPROACH; LOCAL MINIMUMS; OVERALL QUALITY; STABLE REGION; STATISTICAL SYSTEMS; SYNTHESIS STAGES; UNIT SELECTION; VOCAL-TRACTS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450208175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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