Phonological knowledge guided HMM state mapping for cross-lingual speaker adaptation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1825-1828

  Liang, Hui ^a,b   Dines, John ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cross lingual speaker adaptation; HMM based TTS; Minimum generation error; Phonological knowledge

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE-VOICE; CROSS-LINGUAL; HMM-BASED TTS; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; MAPPING CONSTRUCTION; MAPPING RULES; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PHONOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; STATE DISTRIBUTIONS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST;

DECISION TREES; SPEECH;

MAPPING;

EID: 84865786646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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