A perceptual study of acceleration parameters in HMM-based TTS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 426-429

  Chen, Yi Ning ^a   Yan, Zhi Jie ^a   Soong, Frank K ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Acceleration parameters; HMM; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TRAJECTORIES; ACCELERATION;

ACCELERATION PARAMETERS; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; HUMAN SUBJECTS; LOW BIT-RATE SPEECH CODING; OBJECTIVE DISTORTION; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TRAJECTORY GENERATION; VOICE QUALITY; DELTA DELTA; FULL MODEL; HMM; HMM-BASED; MODELING PARAMETERS; SAW-TOOTH; SMOOTH TRAJECTORIES; STATISTIC MODELING;

ACCELERATION; TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 79959858685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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