Towards a voice conversion system based on frame selection

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dutoit, T ^a   Holzapfel, A ^b   Jottrand, M ^a   Moinet, A ^a   Perez J ^c   Stylianou, Y ^b  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Frame selection; Voice conversion; Voice mapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FRAME SELECTION; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE MAPPING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547496196     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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