Vocal attractiveness of statistical speech synthesisers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5368-5371

  Andraszewicz, Sandra ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attractiveness; average voice; HMM; speaker adaptation; speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVENESS; AVERAGE-VOICE; HARMONICS-TO-NOISE RATIOS; HMM; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; MODEL ADAPTATION; MODEL TRANSFORMATION; PSYCHOACOUSTIC EFFECTS; SENTENCE LEVEL; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEECH QUALITY;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80051625997     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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