On the use of extended context for HMM-based spontaneous conversational speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2657-2660

  Koriyama, Tomoki ^a   Nose, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conversational speech; CSJ; HMM based speech synthesis; Prosodic context; Spontaneous speech; X JToBI

Indexed keywords

CSJ; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PROSODIC CONTEXT; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; X-JTOBI;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865794815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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