Voice conversion using nonlinear principal component analysis

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing, CIISP 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 336-339

  Makki, B ^b   Seyedsalehi, S A ^b   Sadati, N ^a,c   Noori Hosseini, M ^b  

^a IEEE

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (NLPCA); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT EXTRACTION; VOICE CONVERSION (VC);

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34548785064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIISP.2007.369191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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