Sin-Horng Chen

Structural maximum a posteriori speaker adaptation of speaking rate-dependent hierarchical prosodic model for Mandarin TTS

In this paper, a structural maximum a posterior speaker adaptation method to adjust the existing speaking rate (SR) dependent hierarchical prosodic model (SR-HPM) to a new speaker's data for realizing a new voice of any given SR is discussed. The adaptive SR-HPM is formulated based on MAP estimation…