Improvements of Hungarian Hidden Markov Model-based text-to-speech synthesis

Authors

  • Bálint Tóth
  • Géza Németh

Abstract

Statistical parametric, especially Hidden Markov Model-based, text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis has received much attention recently. The quality of HMM-based speech synthesis approaches that of the state-of-the-art unit selection systems and possesses numerous favorable features, e.g. small runtime footprint, speaker interpolation, speaker adaptation. This paper presents the improvements of a Hungarian HMM-based speech synthesis system, including speaker dependent and adaptive training, speech synthesis with pulse-noise and mixed excitation. Listening tests and their evaluation are also described.

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Published

2010-01-01

How to Cite

Tóth, B., & Németh, G. (2010). Improvements of Hungarian Hidden Markov Model-based text-to-speech synthesis. Acta Cybernetica, 19(4), 715–731. Retrieved from https://cyber.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/actcybern/article/view/3793

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Regular articles