HMM-based Finnish text-to-speech system utilizing glottal inverse filtering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1881-1884

  Raitio, Tuomo ^a   Suni, Antti ^b   Pulakka, Hannu ^a   Vainio, Martti ^b   Alku, Paavo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Glottal inverse filtering; HMM; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION MODELS; FINNISH; GLOTTAL FLOW; HMM; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INVERSE FILTERING; POLE-MODEL; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT INPUT; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; VOICE SOURCES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867209230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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