An HMM-Based Bilingual (Mandarin-English) TTS

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 137-142

  Liang, Hui ^a   Qian, Yao ^b   Soong, Frank K ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELEPHONE SETS;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; BILINGUALS; HIGH QUALITY; HMM-BASED; MODELING PARAMETERS; SIMPLE++; SMALL FOOTPRINTS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; SYNTHESIS EXPERIMENT; TTS SYSTEMS;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 85063093863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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