Global variance modeling on the log power spectrum of LSPs for HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 825-828

  Ling, Zhen Hua ^a   Hu, Yu ^a   Dai, Li Rong ^a  

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

Author keywords

Global variance; Hidden Markov model; Power spectrum; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POWER SPECTRUM; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GENERATION ALGORITHM; GLOBAL VARIANCE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINE SPECTRAL PAIRS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL STRUCTURE; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; HMM-BASED; MODEL TRAINING; POWER-SPECTRA; VARIANCE METHOD; VARIANCE MODELS;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 79959847301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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