A novel method for prosody prediction in voice conversion

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Helander, Elina E ^a   Nurminen, Jani ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Prosodic codebook; Prosody conversion; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; PROSODIC CODEBOOK; PROSODY CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION;

DECISION TREES; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 34547520011     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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