Optimizations and fitting procedures for the Liljencrants-Fant model for statistical parametric speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 397-401

  Muthukumar, Prasanna Kumar ^a   Black, Alan W ^a   Bunnell, H Timothy ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b NEMOURS CHILDREN S CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Liljencrants Fant model; Speech synthesis; Statistical parametric synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

EXCITATION MODELING; EXCITATION PARAMETERS; FITTING PROCEDURE; GRADIENT DESCENT OPTIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE METRICS; PARAMETRIC SYNTHESIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84906279165     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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