HMM-based speech synthesiser using the LF-model of the glottal source

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4704-4707

  Cabral, Joao P ^a,b   Renals, Steve ^b   Yamagishi, Junichi ^b   Richmond, Korin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glottal Source Modelling; HMM based Speech Synthesis; LF Model

Indexed keywords

GLOTTAL SOURCE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LF-MODEL; MAJOR FACTORS; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; PULSE SIGNAL; SPEECH QUALITY; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS; VOICED SPEECH;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80051619329     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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