Cost reduction of training mapping function based on multistep voice conversion

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Masuda, Tsuyoshi ^a   Shozakai, Makoto ^a  

^a ASAHI KASEI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multistep voice conversion; Speech synthesis; Training cost; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CORRELATION METHODS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MULTISTEP VOICE CONVERSION; TRAINING COST; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547534995     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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