Fundamental frequency modeling for corpus-based speech synthesis based on a statistical learning technique

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 712-717

  Sakai, Shinsuke ^a   Glass, James ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CORPUS-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; INTONATIONAL PHRASE; LEAST SQUARES ERRORS; REGULARIZATION TERMS; STATISTICAL LEARNING TECHNIQUES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946721978     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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