An approach to voice conversion using feature statistical mapping

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 513-532

  Hasan, M M ^a   Nasr, A M ^a   Sultana, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Linear prediction; Pitch contour modification; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; MAPPING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN MATCHING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LINEAR PREDICTION; PITCH CONTOUR MODIFICATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH;

EID: 15744380575     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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