Speaker-adaptive speech synthesis based on eigenvoice conversion and language-dependent prosodic conversion in speech-to-speech translation

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2769-2772

  Hattori, Nobuhiko ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a,b   Kawai, Hisashi ^b   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigenvoice conversion; Prosodic conversion; Speaker adaptation; Speech synthesis; Speech to speech translation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL METHODS; CROSS-LINGUAL; EIGENVOICES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; PROSODIC PARAMETER; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; UNSUPERVISED SPEAKER ADAPTATION; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84865743435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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