MAPPING FROM ARTICULATORY MOVEMENTS TO VOCAL TRACT SPECTRUM WITH GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL FOR ARTICULATORY SPEECH SYNTHESIS

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 31-36

  Toda, Tomoki ^a,b   Black, Alan W ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PHOTOMAPPING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ARTICULATORY INFORMATIONS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; JOINT PROBABILITY; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MODEL-BASED OPC; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; SPEECH DATABASE; VOCAL TRACT SPECTRUM;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 85027459007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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