Recent development of HMM-based expressive speech synthesis and its applications

APSIPA ASC 2011 - Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 188-191

  Nose, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEAKING STYLES; STYLE INTERPOLATION; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES;

DATA PROCESSING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84866846705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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