Towards an Improved Modeling of the Glottal Source in Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 113-118

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HMM based speech synthesis; LF model; Statistical parametric speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION SIGNALS; GLOTTAL SOURCE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LILJENCRANT-FANT MODEL; PULSE TRAIN; SOURCE SIGNALS; SPECTRA'S; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 82155160991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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