Sinusoidal model parameterization for HMM-based TTS system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 805-808

  Shechtman, Slava ^a   Sorin, Alex ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

HMM based TTS; Sinusoidal model; Speech parameterization; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; ENVELOPE MODELS; HMM-BASED TTS; SINUSOIDAL MODEL; SOURCE-FILTER MODELS; STATE OF THE ART; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY; HMM-BASED; MEL FREQUENCIES; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; SPEECH PARAMETERIZATION; TTS SYSTEMS; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959858197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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