Autoregressive HMMs for speech synthesis
dc.contributor.author | Shannon, SM | |
dc.contributor.author | Byrne, WJ | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-10T16:57:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-09-10T16:57:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | M. Shannon and W. Byrne, "Autoregressive HMMs for speech synthesis," in Proc. Interspeech 2009, 2009, pp 400-403, http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~sms46/papers/shannon2009ahs.pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/226373 | |
dc.description.abstract | We propose the autoregressive HMM for speech synthesis. We show that the autoregressive HMM supports efficient EM parameter estimation and that we can use established effective synthesis techniques such as synthesis considering global variance with minimal modification. The autoregressive HMM uses the same model for parameter estimation and synthesis in a consistent way, in contrast to the standard HMM synthesis framework, and supports easy and efficient parameter estimation, in contrast to the trajectory HMM. We find that the autoregressive HMM gives performance comparable to the standard HMM synthesis framework on a Blizzard Challenge-style naturalness evaluation. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), grant agreement 213845 (EMIME). | |
dc.format.medium | paper | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) | |
dc.rights | Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | |
dc.title | Autoregressive HMMs for speech synthesis | |
dc.type | Conference Object | |
prism.publicationDate | 2009 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2009 | |
rioxxterms.type | Conference Paper/Proceeding/Abstract | |
pubs.conference-name | 10th International Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2009 | |
pubs.conference-start-date | 2009-09-06 | |
pubs.conference-finish-date | 2009-09-10 |
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