Exploring rich expressive information from audiobook data using cluster adaptive training

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 958-961

  Chen, Langzhou ^a   Gales, Mark J F ^a   Wan, Vincent ^a   Latorre, Javier ^a   Akamine, Masami ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Audiobook; Cluster adaptive training; Expressive speech synthesis; Hidden Markov model

Indexed keywords

AUDIOBOOK; CLUSTER ADAPTIVE TRAINING; CONTINUOUS SPACES; DECISION TREE CONSTRUCTION; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; FULL DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DECISION TREES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84878397811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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