Context adaptive training with factorized decision trees for HMM-based statistical parametric speech synthesis

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 914-923

  Yu, Kai ^a   Zen, Heiga ^b   Mairesse, François ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Context adaptive training; Factorized decision tree; HMM based speech synthesis; State clustering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TRAINING; COMBINATORIAL EXPLOSION; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; DATA COVERAGE; DATA SPARSITY PROBLEMS; FACTORIZED DECISION TREE; HIGH QUALITY; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; NATURAL SPEECH; PARAMETER CLUSTERING; STATE CLUSTERING; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; USE CONTEXT;

DECISION TREES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79955538498     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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