Voice quality conversion using interactive evolution of prosodic control

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 181-192

  Sato, Yuji ^a  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolutionary computation; Interactive evolution; Prosodic control; Voice quality conversion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERACTIVE EVOLUTION; MULTIMEDIA-CONTENT EDITING; PROSODIC CONTROL; VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 10844225163     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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