AN EFFICIENT SPEAKER ADAPTATION METHOD FOR TTS DURATION MODEL

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1839-1842

  Gu, Wentao ^a   Shih, Chilin ^b   van Santen, Jan P H ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION METHODS; ADAPTATION MODELS; DURATION MODELLING; PERFORMANCE; SMALL TRAINING; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; TARGET SPEAKER; WEIGHTED MODELS; WEIGHTS ESTIMATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79959846158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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