| Presentation | 2001/10/1 Investigation of State Duration Model based on Gamma distribution for HMM-based Speech Synthesis Yoshinobu ISHIMATSU, Keiichi TOKUDA, Takashi MASUKO, Takao KOBAYASHI, Tadashi KITAMURA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | We propose a new approach to state duration modeling based on Gamma distribution for HMM-based speech synthesis. We have proposed the text-to-speech synthesis, in which state durations are modeled by using Gaussian distribution, and shown its effectiveness. The Gamma distribution is defined for positive real numbers, and has the distribution form which fits well for state duration modeling. For this reason, we expected that the Gamma distribution enables us to model state durations with higher accuracy. The experimental results show that the proposed duration modeling technique yields the speech quality comparable to or higher with few duration models than the conventional technique. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Gamma distribution / state duration model / context clustering / speech synthesis |
| Paper # | SP2001-81,WIT2001-35 |
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| Conference Date | 2001/10/1(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | Investigation of State Duration Model based on Gamma distribution for HMM-based Speech Synthesis |
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| Keyword(1) | Gamma distribution |
| Keyword(2) | state duration model |
| Keyword(3) | context clustering |
| Keyword(4) | speech synthesis |
| 1st Author's Name | Yoshinobu ISHIMATSU |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Inst.of Tech.() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Keiichi TOKUDA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Inst.of Tech. |
| 3rd Author's Name | Takashi MASUKO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Inst.of Tech. |
| 4th Author's Name | Takao KOBAYASHI |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Inst.of Tech. |
| 5th Author's Name | Tadashi KITAMURA |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Inst.of Tech. |
| Date | 2001/10/1 |
| Paper # | SP2001-81,WIT2001-35 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.101 |
| Number (no) | 353 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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