High-pitched excitation generation for glottal vocoding in statistical parametric speech synthesis using a deep neural network

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

Volumn 2016-May, Issue , 2016, Pages 5120-5124

  Juvela, Lauri ^a   Bollepalli, Bajibabu ^a   Airaksinen, Manu ^a   Alku, Paavo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Deep neural network; Glottal inverse filtering; Glottal vocoder; QCP; Statistical parametric speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973293681     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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