Conversational spontaneous speech synthesis using average voice model

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 853-856

  Koriyama, Tomoki ^a   Nose, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Average voice model; Conversational speech; HMM based speech synthesis; Speaker adaptation; Spontaneous speech; Style adaptation

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AVERAGE VOICE MODELS; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; STYLE ADAPTATION; AVERAGE-VOICE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; MODEL TRAINING; TRAINING DATA;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959835828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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