Improving voice quality of HMM-based speech synthesis using voice conversion method

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7914-7918

  Jiao, Yishan ^a   Xie, Xiang ^a   Na, Xingyu ^a   Tu, Ming ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

HMM based speech synthesis; local linear transformation; temporal decomposition; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONVERSION METHODS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LOCAL LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS (LLT); MODIFIED SPECTRA; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; SPECTRAL SELECTION; TEMPORAL DECOMPOSITION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84905281160     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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