A postfilter to modify the modulation spectrum in HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 290-294

  Takamichi, Shinnosuke ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Neubig, Graham ^a   Sakti, Sakriani ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

global variance; HMM based speech synthesis; modulation spectrum; over smoothing; postfilter

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GLOBAL VARIANCE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; MODULATION SPECTRUM; OVER-SMOOTHING; POSTFILTERS;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 84905234422     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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