Analysis of speaker clustering strategies for HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 994-997

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; Speaker adaptation; Statistical parametric speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VOICE MODELS; BETTER PERFORMANCE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LISTENING TESTS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER CLUSTERING; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84878404882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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