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Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using two-pass decision tree construction


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Gibson, M 
Hirsimaki, T 
Karhila, R 
Kurimo, M 
Byrne, WJ 

Abstract

This paper demonstrates how unsupervised cross-lingual adaptation of HMM-based speech synthesis models may be performed without explicit knowledge of the adaptation data language. A two-pass decision tree construction technique is deployed for this purpose. Using parallel translated datasets, cross-lingual and intralingual adaptation are compared in a controlled manner. Listener evaluations reveal that the proposed method delivers performance approaching that of unsupervised intralingual adaptation.

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HMM-based speech synthesis, unsupervised speaker adaptation, cross-lingual

Journal Title

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

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IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP' 10

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IEEE
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European Commission (213845)