Modification of harmonie peak-to-valley ratio for controlling roughness in voice conversion

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 1613-1615

  Verma, A ^a   Kumar, A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILTRATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HARMONIC PEAK-TO-VALLEY RATIO (HPVR); SPEECH SIGNALS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 11144343345     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20047285     Document Type: Article

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