Text-independent voice conversion based on unit selection

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sündermann, David ^a,b,c   Höge, Harald ^a   Bonafonte, Antonio ^b   Ney, Hermann ^d   Black, Alan ^e   Narayanan, Shri ^c  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TEXT-DEPENDENT TRAINING; UNIT SELECTION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33947623206     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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