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    Speaker Adaptation in Eigen Voice Space for Statistical Parametric Speech Syntheis

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Shams, Boshra (Author) ; Sameti, Hossein (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Recently various speaker adaptation methods in HMM-based speech synthesis are proposed. The importance of adaptation techniques is that we can design a system in which speech is generated with high quality and target speaker characteristics through limited adaptation data sets.
    In this research, we focus on adaptation based on clustering and develop a new and novel method using eigenvoices in order to adapt a new speaker. We employ this approach for the first time in HSMM-based speech synthesis systems and its goal is to reduce the parameters and adaptation data of the system. In our proposed method, first some speaker dependent models are trained. For each model we combine the...