Two-Band Excitation for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis

⎯The optimum maximum voiced frequency (MVF) estimation-based two-band excitation for hidden Markov model-based speech synthesis is presented. An analysis-by-synthesis scheme is adopted for the MVF estimation which leads to the minimum spectral distortion of synthesized speech. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves synthetic speech quality. Keywords⎯HTS, HMM-based speech synthesis, speech synthesis, TTS.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: IEICET
• Authors: Sang-Jin Kim, Minsoo Hahn
• Keywords: Estimation-based Two-band Excitation, IEICET 2007, Model-based Speech Synthesis, Speech Synthesis