Vowel creation by articulatory control in HMM-based parametric speech synthesis

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 990-993

  Ling, Zhen Hua ^a   Richmond, Korin ^b   Yamagishi, Junichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Articulatory features; Multiple regression hidden Markov model; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ARTICULATORY FEATURES; AUXILIARY VARIABLES; CONTEXT FEATURES; CONTEXT INFORMATION; CONTEXT-DEPENDENT MODELS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL(HMM); MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84878398272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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