The effect of neural networks in statistical parametric speech synthesis

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 4455-4459

  Hashimoto, Kei ^a   Oura, Keiichiro ^a   Nankaku, Yoshihiko ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

deep neural network; hidden Markov model; Statistical parametric speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STATISTICS;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; GENERATION PROCESS; GENERATIVE MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84946074523     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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