Multilevel parametric-base F0 model for speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2274-2277

  Latorre, Javier ^a   Akamine, Masami ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrete cosine transform; HMM based synthesis; Prosody; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DCT COEFFICIENTS; F0 MODEL; HMM-BASED SYNTHESIS; INVERSE TRANSFORMATIONS; LOG-LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PARAMETERIZED; PITCH CONTOURS; PROSODY; STATISTICAL MODELS; SUBJECTIVE TESTS;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; DECISION TREES; PARAMETERIZATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84867194192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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