Robust TTS duration modelling using DNNS

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

Volumn 2016-May, Issue , 2016, Pages 5130-5134

  Henter, Gustav Eje ^a   Ronanki, Srikanth ^a   Watts, Oliver ^a   Wester, Mirjam ^a   Wu, Zhizheng ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

duration modelling; robust statistics; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973395039     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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