Unsupervised adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1869-1872

  King, Simon ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^b   Zen, Heiga ^b   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM based speech synthesis; HTS; MLLR; Speaker adaptation; Speech synthesis; Trajectory HMMs

Indexed keywords

HIGH QUALITY; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HTS; MLLR; MODEL ADAPTATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SELECTION SYSTEMS; SELECTION TECHNIQUES; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; TARGET SPEAKER; UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION; WAVE FORMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867203039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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