Utilizing glottal source pulse library for generating improved excitation signal for HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4564-4567

  Raitio, Tuomo ^a   Suni, Antti ^b   Pulakka, Hannu ^a   Vainio, Martti ^b   Alku, Paavo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

glottal inverse filtering; HMM; pulse library; source modeling; speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION SIGNALS; GLOTTAL SOURCE; HMM; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INVERSE FILTERING; PULSE LIBRARY; SOURCE MODELING; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPEECH CORPORA; SYNTHESIS STAGES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TARGET COST; VOCAL-TRACTS; VOICE SOURCES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PULSE GENERATORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80051650578     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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