Voice conversion based on joint pitch and spectral transformation with Component Group-GMM

Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE NLP-KE'05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 199-203

  Ma, Jianchun ^a   Liu, Wenju ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); SPEAKER IDENTITY INFORMATION; SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATION; SPEECH QUALITY; VOICE CONVERSION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33847332065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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