Improving naturalness of hmm-based TTS trained with limited data by temporal decomposition

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E96-D, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2417-2426

  Phung, Trung Nghia ^a   Phan, Thanh Son ^b   Vu, Thang Tat ^b   Luong, Mai Chi ^b   Akagi, Masato ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Information Technology   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

HMM based TTS; Hybrid TTS; Limited data; Temporal decomposition; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; LINGUISTICS; MOTIVATION; TRAJECTORIES;

HMM-BASED TTS; HYBRID TTS; LIMITED DATA; TEMPORAL DECOMPOSITION; TEXT TO SPEECH;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84888617103     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E96.D.2417     Document Type: Article

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