Our previous analysis of speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis methods suggested that there are two possible reasons why average voices can obtain higher subjective scores t...
Sandra Andraszewicz, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Most HMM-based TTS systems use a hard voiced/unvoiced classification to produce a discontinuous F0 signal which is used for the generation of the source-excitation. When a mixed ...
Javier Latorre, Mark J. F. Gales, Sabine Buchholz,...
Professional manual transcription of speech is an expensive and time consuming process. This paper focuses on the problem of combining noisy transcriptions from multiple non-exper...
Kartik Audhkhasi, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikant...
This paper combines a parameter generation algorithm and a model optimization approach with the model-integration-based voice conversion (MIVC). We have proposed probabilistic int...
The recent developments of smart mobile phones and 3G networks enable users to enjoy video programs by subscribing to data plans. Due to phone-to-phone communication technologies ...