Directly modeling speech waveforms by neural networks for statistical parametric speech synthesis

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 4215-4219

  Tokuday, Keiichi ^a,b   Zen, Heiga ^a  

^a GOOGLE   (United Kingdom)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adaptive cepstral analysis; neural network; Statistical parametric speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ACOUSTIC FEATURE EXTRACTION; ACOUSTIC MODEL; ACOUSTIC MODEL TRAININGS; CEPSTRAL ANALYSIS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; SPEECH WAVEFORMS; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TREE STRUCTURES;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84946077883     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178765     Document Type: Conference Paper

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