Emphasized speech synthesis based on Hidden Markov Models

2009 Oriental COCOSDA International Conference on Speech Database and Assessments, ICSDA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 76-81

  Morizane, Kumiko ^a   Nakamura, Keigo ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; MIXED MODELS; MODEL TRAINING; SPEECH DATA; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TRAINING METHODS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 71249095194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSDA.2009.5278371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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