Analysis on acoustic similarities between Tamil and English phonemes using product of likelihood-Gaussians for an HMM-based mixed-language synthesizer

2013 International Conference Oriental COCOSDA Held Jointly with 2013 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation, O-COCOSDA/CASLRE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Solomi, V Sherlin ^a   Christina, S Lilly ^a   Rachel, G Anushiya ^a   Ramani, B ^a   Vijayalakshmi, P ^a   Nagarajan, T ^a  

^a SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

log likelihood; Mixed language synthesizer; product of Gaussians

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894111243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSDA.2013.6709898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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