Roles of the average voice in speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 418-421

  Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   Watts, Oliver ^a   King, Simon ^a   Usabaev, Bela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Average voice; HMM; Speaker adaptation; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; ADAPTIVE HMM; AVERAGE-VOICE; CEPSTRAL; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; HMM; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH SOUNDS; TRAINING STRATEGY;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959858171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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