If a concatenative speech synthesis system uses more short speech segments, it increases the potential to generate natural speech because the concatenation variation becomes greater. Recently, a synthesis approach was proposed in which very short (5 ms) segments are used. In this paper, an implementation of an HMM-based feature generation module into a very short segment concatenative synthesis system that has the advantage of modularity and a synthesis experiment are described.
Cite as: Hirai, T., Yamagishi, J., Tenpaku, S. (2007) Utilization of an HMM-based feature generation module in 5 ms segment concatenative speech synthesis. Proc. 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 6), 81-84
@inproceedings{hirai07_ssw,
author={Toshio Hirai and Junichi Yamagishi and Seiichi Tenpaku},
title={{Utilization of an HMM-based feature generation module in 5 ms segment concatenative speech synthesis}},
year=2007,
booktitle={Proc. 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 6)},
pages={81--84}
}