Autoregressive clustering for HMM speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 829-832

  Shannon, Matt ^a   Byrne, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoregressive HMM; Decision tree clustering; HMM based speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; AUTOREGRESSIVE SYSTEMS; CLUSTERING PROCEDURE; DECISION TREE CLUSTERING; EVALUATION RESULTS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH; MODEL COMPLEXITY; AUTOREGRESSIVE HMM; CLUSTERINGS; ESTIMATION QUALITY; HIGH QUALITY; MODELING COMPLEXITY; PARAMETERS ESTIMATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959849719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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