Using HMM-based speech synthesis to reconstruct the voice of individuals with degenerative speech disorders

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 966-969

  Veaux, Christophe ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assistive technologies; HTS; Voice cloning; Voice reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AVERAGE VOICE MODELS; CONTEXT-DEPENDENT MODELS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HTS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEURONS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84878397216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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