Frequency warping based on mapping formant parameters

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2290-2293

  Shuang, Zhi Wei ^a   Bakis, Raimo ^b   Shechtman, Slava ^c   Chazan, Dan ^c   Qin, Yong ^a  

^a IBM China Research Lab

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

Formant; Frequency warping; Voice morphing

Indexed keywords

MAPPING;

FORMANT; FREQUENCY WARPING; HIGH QUALITY; ITS APPLICATIONS; TARGET SPEAKER; TRAINING DATA; VOICE MORPHING; WARPING FUNCTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547507542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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