Voice conversion based on weighted least squares estimation criterion and residual prediction from pitch contour

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3784 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 326-333

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Sun, Jun ^a   Dai, Beiqian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATION; PITCH CONTOUR; SPEECH QUALITY; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 33646812247     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11573548_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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