Continuous control of the degree of articulation in HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1797-1800

  Picart, Benjamin ^a   Drugman, Thomas ^a   Dutoit, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Expressive speech; HTS; Speaking style adaptation; Speech synthesis; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; CONTINUOUS CONTROL; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HTS; SPEAKING STYLES; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE QUALITY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865757452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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