A comparison of two approaches to bilingual HMM-based speech synthesis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8082 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 44-51

  Pobar, Miran ^a   Justin, Tadej ^b   Žibert, Janez ^c   Mihelič, France ^b   Ipšić, Ivo ^a  

^a University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

bilingual; HMM; Kullback Leibler divergence; phoneme mapping; speaker adaptation; speech synthesis; state mapping

Indexed keywords

BILINGUAL; HMM; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; PHONEME MAPPINGS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

MAPPING;

EID: 84884922038     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40585-3_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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