A comparison of supervised and unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation approaches for HMM-based speech synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4598-4601

  Liang, Hui ^a,b   Dines, John ^a   Saheer, Lakshmi ^a,b  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision tree marginalization; HMM state mapping; Unsupervised cross lingual speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CROSS-LINGUAL; CROSS-LINGUAL SPEAKER ADAPTATIONS; DECISION TREE MARGINALIZATION; HMM STATE MAPPING; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; MARGINALIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PROJECT SUCCESS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; UNSUPERVISED CROSS-LINGUAL SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

MAPPING;

EID: 78049369783     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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