Robustness of HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 581-584

  Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   Ling, Zhenhua ^a,b   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

HMM; HTS; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

HIGH QUALITY; HMM; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HTS; RESEARCH TOPICS; SPEECH DATA; SYNTHESIS METHOD; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TRAINING METHODS; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STORMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867223798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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