Evaluation of Finnish unit selection and HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1853-1856

  Silen, Hanna ^a   Helander, Elina ^a   Nurminen, Jani ^b   Gabbouj, Moncef ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

FINNISH; FRONT END; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL GENERATION; SPEECH DATABASE; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; TEXT TO SPEECH; TRAINING SETS; UNIT SELECTION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84867227302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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