Wideband parametric speech synthesis using warped linear prediction

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1418-1421

  Raitio, Tuomo ^a   Suni, Antti ^b   Vainio, Martti ^b   Alku, Paavo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Statistical parametric speech synthesis; Warped linear prediction; Wideband; WLP

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY WARPING; LINEAR FREQUENCY; LINEAR PREDICTION; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; WIDE-BAND; WLP;

FORECASTING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84878394171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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