Feature-space transform tying in unified acoustic-articulatory modelling for articulatory control of HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 117-120

  Ling, Zhen Hua ^a   Richmond, Korin ^b   Yamagishi, Junichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Articulatory features; Gaussian mixture model; Hidden Markov model; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATORY FEATURES; ARTICULATORY SPACE; DEPENDENCY RELATIONSHIP; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; MODELLING METHOD; PIECEWISE LINEAR; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TRANSFORM MATRICES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84865795806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. K. Tokuda, T. Yoshimura, T. Masuko, T. Kobayashi, and T. Kitamura, "Speech parameter generation algorithms for HMM-based speech synthesis," in ICASSP, vol. 3, 2000, pp. 1315-1318.
2. K. Tokuda, H. Zen, and A. W. Black, "HMM-based approach to multilingual speech synthesis," in Text to speech synthesis: New paradigms and advances, S. Narayanan and A. Alwan, Eds. Prentice Hall, 2004.
3. H. Zen, T. Toda, M. Nakamura, and K. Tokuda, "Details of Nitech HMM-based speech synthesis system for the Blizzard Challenge 2005," IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst., vol. E90-D, no. 1, pp. 325-333, 2007.
4. Z.-H. Ling, Y.-J. Wu, Y.-P. Wang, L. Qin, and R.-H. Wang, "USTC system for Blizzard Challenge 2006: an improved HMM-based speech synthesis method," in Blizzard Challenge Workshop, 2006.
5. Z.-H. Ling, K. Richmond, J. Yamagishi, and R.-H. Wang, "Articulatory control of HMM-based parametric speech synthesis driven by phonetic knowledge," in Interspeech 2008, 2008, pp. 573-576.
6. - "Integrating articulatory features into HMM-based parametric speech synthesis," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 1171-1185, Aug. 2009.
7. H. Kawahara, I. Masuda-Katsuse, and A. de Cheveigne, "Restructuring speech representations using pitch-adaptive time-frequency smoothing and an instanta-neous-frequency-based F0 extraction: possible role of a repetitive structure in sounds," Speech Communication, vol. 27, pp. 187-207, 1999.