Reactive and continuous control of HMM-based speech synthesis

2012 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 252-257

  Astrinaki, Maria ^a   D'Alessandro, Nicolas ^a   Picart, Benjamin ^a   Drugman, Thomas ^a   Dutoit, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

HTS; reactive control; speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS CONTROL; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HTS; ON-THE-FLY; OUTPUT QUALITY; REACTIVE CONTROL; REACTIVE MODEL; SPEECH WAVEFORMS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84874245805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2012.6424231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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