Speaker transformation using sentence HMM based alignments and detailed prosody modification

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 289-292

  Arslan, L M ^a   Talkin, D ^a  

^a Entropic Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING; LEVEL DIFFERENCE; PITCH MODIFICATION; SPEECH WAVEFORMS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; TRANSFORMATION ALGORITHM; VOICE CONVERSION;

ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0031643805     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.674424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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