%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Thursday 21 November 2024 12:28:44 PM @TECHREPORT{Na_Idiap-RR-05-2013, author = {Na, Xingyu and Garner, Philip N.}, keywords = {Pitch modelling, pitch target approximation, speech synthesis}, projects = {Idiap}, month = {3}, title = {Convolutional Pitch Target Approximation Model for Speech Synthesis}, type = {Idiap-RR}, number = {Idiap-RR-05-2013}, year = {2013}, institution = {Idiap}, abstract = {In this paper, we investigate pitch contour modelling in speech synthesis based on segmental units. A convolutional pitch target approximation model is proposed. This model allows jointly stochastic modelling of framewise pitch and pitch contour of longer units, of which the intuitive relations are revealed by a convolutional target approximation filter. The pitch contour is stylized by a linear representation called pitch target. In synthesis stage, the likelihood of the framewise model and the pitch target model are jointly maximized using a Toeplitz matrix representing the discrete convolutional filter.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2013/Na_Idiap-RR-05-2013.pdf} }