Rich-context Unit Selection (RUS) approach to high quality TTS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4798-4801

  Yan, Zhi Jie ^a   Qian, Yao ^a   Soong, Frank K ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; Rich context unit selection (RUS); Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONTEXT MODELS; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH QUALITY SPEECH SYNTHESIS; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; RICH-CONTEXT UNIT SELECTION; SEARCH PROCEDURES; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT SELECTION APPROACH; WAVEFORMS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 78049399368     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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