Speech factorization for HMM-TTS based on cluster adaptive training.

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 970-973

  Latorre, Javier ^a   Wan, Vincent ^a   Gales, Mark J F ^a   Chen, Langzhou ^a   Chin, K K ^a   Knill, Kate ^a   Akamine, Masami ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cluster adaptive training; Expressive synthesis; Speech factorization; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ADAPTIVE TRAINING; CONTINUOUS SPACES; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; EXPRESSIVE SYNTHESIS; HMM-BASED TTS; HMM-TTS; PRODUCTION OF; TRAINING DATA;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FACTORIZATION;

EID: 84878418697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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