Histogram-based spectral equalization for HMM-based speech synthesis using mel-LSP

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1154-1157

  Ohtani, Yamato ^a   Tamura, Masatsune ^a   Morita, Masahiro ^a   Kagoshima, Takehiko ^a   Akamine, Masami ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eel LSP; Hidden Markov model; Histogram equalization; Parameter emphasis; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; EEL-LSP; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PARAMETER EMPHASIS; REAL-TIME SYNTHESIS; SPECTRAL EQUALIZATION;

GRAPHIC METHODS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84878387899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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