The GTH-CSTR Entries for the Speech Synthesis Albayzin 2010 Evaluation: HMM-based Speech Synthesis Systems considering morphosyntactic features and Speaker Adaptation Techniques

R. Barra-Chicote, J. Yamagishi, J. M. Montero, O. Watts, S. King, J. Macias-Guarasa

Abstract: This paper describes the GTHCSTR entries developed for the Speech Synthesis Albayzin 2010 Evaluation. We have developed three different HMM-based systems to build synthetic voices in Spanish using two hours of speech of a male speaker. We have improved our baseline system (GTHCSTR-2008) by using morphosyntactic features, iterative segmentation algorithms, enhanced feature analysis and speaker adaptation techniques.

Index Terms: text to speech synthesis, statistical parametric speech synthesis, morphosyntactic features, speaker adaptation.

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