An HMM-based Mandarin Chinese text-to-speech system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4274 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 223-232

  Qian, Yao ^a   Soong, Frank ^a   Chen, Yining ^a   Chu, Min ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Corpus based TTS; LSP; Speech synthesis; Statistics based TTS; Trainable TTS

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON TEST; CORPUS-BASED TTS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LEXICAL TONES; LINE SPECTRUM PAIR; LISTENING TESTS; LSP; MANDARIN CHINESE; NATURAL RESONANCE; SEGMENT DURATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH SOUNDS; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TONE LANGUAGES; TRAJECTORY SYNTHESIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 77249139677     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11939993_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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