Application of the trended hidden markov model to speech synthesis

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2239-2242

  Dines, John ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a   Moody, Miles ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BASIC SYNTHESIS UNITS; DECISION TREE TECHNIQUES; DIPHONES; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009143690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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