A HMM-based speech synthesis system using a new glottal source and vocal-tract separation method

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4630-4633

  Lanchantin, Pierre ^a   Degottex, Gilles ^a   Rodet, Xavier ^a  

^a Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6   (France)

Author keywords

HMM based speech synthesis; Liljencrants Fant model

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SOURCE SEPARATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DETERMINISTICS; GAUSSIANS; GLOTTAL SOURCE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LILJENCRANT-FANT MODEL; SEPARATION METHODS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; TWO-COMPONENT; VOCAL-TRACTS; WAVEFORMS;

SEPARATION;

EID: 78049376644     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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