Parametric formant modelling and transformation in voice conversion

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 227-245

  Rentzos, Dimitrios ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^a   Yan, Qin ^a   Ho, Ching Hsiang ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Formant; hmms; Morphing; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

FORMANT; HMMS; MORPHING; VOICE CONVERSION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33744930096     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: 15728110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10772-006-5692-y     Document Type: Article

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