Glottal spectral separation for parametric speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1829-1832

  Cabral, João P ^a   Renals, Steve ^a   Richmond, Korin ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glottal spectral separation; HMM based speech synthesis; LF model

Indexed keywords

GLOTTAL SOURCE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; IMPULSE EXCITATIONS; LF-MODEL; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPECTRAL SEPARATION; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867224654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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