On the (UN)importance of the contextual factors in HMM-based speech synthesis and coding

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 8140-8143

  Cernak, Milos ^a   Motlicek, Petr ^a   Garner, Philip N ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

HMM speech synthesis; very low bit rate speech coding

Indexed keywords

CODING SYSTEM; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LOW BIT-RATE SPEECH CODING; SPEECH QUALITY;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH CODING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84890528919     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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