GlottDNN - A full-band glottal vocoder for statistical parametric speech synthesis

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 08-12-September-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 2473-2477

  Airaksinen, Manu ^a   Bollepalli, Bajibabu ^a   Juvela, Lauri ^a   Wu, Zhizheng ^b   King, Simon ^b   Alku, Paavo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep neural network; Glottal inverse filtering; Speech synthesis; Vocoder

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; INVERSE FILTERING; NEW APPROACHES; PARAMETERIZING; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; TEXT TO SPEECH; VOCAL-TRACTS;

VOCODERS;

EID: 84994338062     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2016-342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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