An evaluation of parameter generation methods with rich context models in HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1138-1141

  Takamichi, Shinnosuke ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Shiga, Yoshinori ^b   Kawai, Hisashi ^b   Sakti, Sakriani ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM based speech synthesis; Over smoothing; Parameter generation; Rich context model

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT MODELS; EVALUATION OF PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GENERATION ALGORITHM; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERIA; OVER-SMOOTHING; PARAMETER GENERATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84878421733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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