Integration of speaker and pitch adaptive training for HMM-based singing voice synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2559-2563

  Shirota, Kanako ^a   Nakamura, Kazuhiro ^a   Hashimoto, Kei ^a   Oura, Keiichiro ^a   Nankaku, Yoshihiko ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

hidden Markov model; pitch adaptive training; singing voice synthesis; speaker adaptive training

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADAPTIVE TRAINING; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); PARAMETRIC APPROACH; PITCH ADAPTIVE TRAININGS; SINGING-VOICE SYNTHESIS; SPEAKER ADAPTIVE TRAININGS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84905234613     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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