Minimum generation error training with direct log spectral distortion on LSPs for HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 577-580

  Wu, Yi Jian ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM; Line spectral pairs; Log spectral distortion; Minimum generation error; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; HMM; HMM TRAINING; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LINE SPECTRAL PAIRS; LOG SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS; MINIMUM GENERATION ERROR; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867214032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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