Duration-embedded Bi-HMM for expressive voice conversion

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1921-1924

  Hsia, Chi Chun ^a   Wu, Chung Hsien ^a   Liu, Te Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EMOTIONAL SPEECH; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); NEUTRAL SPEECH; SPECTRUM-CONVERTED SPEECH;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745194137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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