A self-organizing map with twin units capable of describing a nonlinear input-output relation applied to speech code vector mapping

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 4634-4644

  Uchino, Eiji ^a   Yano, Kazuaki ^a   Azetsu, Tadahiro ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone conduction voice; Quantization distortion; Self organizing map; Twin units; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AIR CONDUCTION VOICE; BONE CONDUCTION VOICE; QUANTIZATION DISTORTION; SPEECH CODE VECTOR MAPPING; TONE QUALITY; TWIN UNITS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 34547806096     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.05.028     Document Type: Article

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