Statistical text-to-speech synthesis based on segment-wise representation with a norm constraint

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1077-1082

  Tiomkin, Stas ^a   Malah, David ^a   Shechtman, Slava ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

Segment wise model representation; Speech feature dynamics; Statistical TTS; Text to speech (TTS) synthesis

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM; FRAME DIFFERENCES; FRAME FEATURES; LISTENING TESTS; MODEL REPRESENTATION; NATURAL SPEECH; REDUCED DYNAMICS; SECOND-ORDER FEATURES; SPEECH FEATURE DYNAMICS; SPEECH FEATURES; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 77953715694     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2040795     Document Type: Article

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