Measuring the perceptual effects of modelling assumptions in speech synthesis using stimuli constructed from repeated natural speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1504-1508

  Henter, Gustav Eje ^a   Merritt, Thomas ^a   Shannon, Matt ^b   Mayo, Catherine ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic modelling; Diagonal covariance matrices; Repeated speech; Speech synthesis; Stream independence

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC MODELLING; COVARIANCE MATRICES; NATURAL SPEECH; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS; SPEECH CORPORA; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STREAM INDEPENDENCE; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84910028520     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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