An Investigation of the Impact of Speech Transcript Errors on HMM Voices

7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 246-251

  Ni, Jinfu ^a   Kawai, Hisashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM based speech synthesis; HTS; unsupervised approach; web based voice fonts

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DECISION TREES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELEPHONE SETS; WEBSITES;

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HTS; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTS; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES; VOICE FONTS; VOICE QUALITY; WEB-BASED VOICE; WEB-BASED VOICE-FONT;

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EID: 84874455039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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