An HMM-based speech synthesiser using Glottal Post-Filtering

7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 365-370

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

glottal post filter; HMM based speech synthesis; voice quality

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

GLOTTAL POST-FILTER; GLOTTAL SOURCE; HMM-BASED; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; POST-FILTERING; POSTFILTERS; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 80051655408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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