A Common Attribute based Unified HTS framework for Speech Synthesis in Indian Languages

8th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 291-296

  Ramani, B ^a   Christina, S Lilly ^a   Rachel, G Anushiya ^a   Solomi, V Sherlin ^a   Nandwana, Mahesh Kumar ^b   Prakash, Anusha ^b   Aswin, Shanmugam S ^b   Krishnan, Raghava ^b   Kishore, S P ^c   Samudravijaya, K ^d   Vijayalakshmi, P ^a   Nagarajan, T ^a   Murthy, Hema A ^b  

^a SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; TELEPHONE SETS;

ATTRIBUTE-BASED; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; INDIAN LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; MEAN OPINION SCORES; PHONESET; SELECTION BASED; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84977851321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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