Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using two-pass decision tree construction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4642-4645

  Gibson, Matthew ^a   Hirsimäki, Teemu ^b   Karhila, Reima ^b   Kurimo, Mikko ^b   Byrne, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross lingual; HMM based speech synthesis; Unsupervised speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; CROSS-LINGUAL; CROSS-LINGUAL SPEAKER ADAPTATIONS; DECISION TREE CONSTRUCTION; EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PERFORMANCE; SYNTHESIS MODELS; UNSUPERVISED SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 78049411002     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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