Qian et al., 2009 - Google Patents
Improved prosody generation by maximizing joint likelihood of state and longer unitsQian et al., 2009
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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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