A style control technique for singing voice synthesis based on multiple-regression hsmm

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 378-382

  Nose, Takashi ^a   Kanemoto, Misa ^a   Koriyama, Tomoki ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM based singing voice synthesis; Multiple regression HSMM; Pitch adaptive training; Style control; Vibrato modeling

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MOVING AVERAGE FILTER; MULTIPLE-REGRESSION HSMM; PITCH ADAPTIVE TRAININGS; SINGING-VOICE SYNTHESIS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905218413     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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