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Improved prosody generation by maximizing joint likelihood of state and longer units

Qian et al., 2009

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12976316404063830498
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Qian Y
Wu Z
Soong F
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2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

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The current state-of-art HMM-bsed TTS can produce highly intelligible output speech and deliver a decent segmental quality. However, its prosody, especially at the phrase or sentence level, tends to be bland. The blandness of synthesized prosody is partially due to …
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