Investigating source and filter contributions, and their interaction, to statistical parametric speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1509-1513

  Merritt, Thomas ^a   Raitio, Tuomo ^b   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Glotthmm; Hidden markov modelling; Source filter interaction; Source filter model; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GLOTTHMM; INDEPENDENCE ASSUMPTION; MODULATION SPECTRUM; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOURCE FILTERS; SOURCE-FILTER MODELS; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

MODULATION;

EID: 84910070288     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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