Nearly defect-free F0 trajectory extraction for expressive speech modifications based on STRAIGHT

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 537-540

  Kawahara, Hideki ^a   De Cheveigné, Alain ^a   Banno, Hideki ^a   Takahashi, Toru ^a   Irino, Toshio ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR CORRECTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

F0 TRAJECTORIES; F0 TRAJECTORY; FREQUENCY BAND; SPEECH MANIPULATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745184239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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