Formant-based frequency warping for improving speaker adaptation in HMM TTS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 817-820

  Xin, Zhuang ^a,b   Qian, Yao ^a   Soong, Frank ^a   Wu, Yijian ^c   Zhang, Bo ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency warping; Speaker adaptation; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

BILINEAR TRANSFORMATION; FORMANT FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY WARPING; LOG SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; UNIVERSAL WARPING FUNCTIONS; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; HMM-TTS; PERFORMANCE; TARGET SPEAKER; VOCAL-TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATIONS;

LOUDSPEAKERS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959837023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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