Automatic error detection for unit selection speech synthesis using log likelihood ratio based SVM classifier

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 162-165

  Lu, Heng ^a   Ling, Zhen Hua ^a   Wei, Si ^a   Dai, Li Rong ^a   Wang, Ren Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Error detection; Log likelihood ratio; Speech synthesis; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; ERROR DETECTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO; PITCH CONTOURS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SVM CLASSIFIERS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CONTEXT-DEPENDENT ACOUSTIC MODELING; MACHINE TRAININGS; RATIO VECTORS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959842894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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