A frequency-weighted post-filtering transform for compensation of the over-smoothing effect in HMM-based speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 275-279

  Eyben, Florian ^a   Agiomyrgiannakis, Yannis ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

global variance; hidden Markov model; mel frequency cepstrum; post filtering; radial scaling; speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CEPSTRUM; GENERATION ALGORITHM; GLOBAL VARIANCE; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; POST-FILTERING; QUALITY DEGRADATION; RADIAL SCALING; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84905283795     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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