Spectral voice conversion for text-to-speech synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 285-288

  Kain, A ^a   MacOn, M W ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; JOINT DENSITIES; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PERCEPTUAL TEST; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION ALGORITHM;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0031623661     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.674423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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