Word-level emphasis modelling in HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4238-4241

  Yu, K ^a   Mairesse, F ^a   Young, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Expressive speech synthesis; HMM based synthesis

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES;

CLUSTERING APPROACH; DECISION TREE CLUSTERING; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HMM BASED SYNTHESIS; HMM-BASED; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; NATURAL SPEECH; STATISTICAL APPROACH; SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURES; WORD LEVEL;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 78049376926     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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