Perceptual continuity and naturalness of expressive strength in singing voices based on speech morphing

Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yonezawa, Tomoko ^a,b   Suzuki, Noriko ^a   Abe, Shinji ^a   Mase, Kenji ^a,b   Kogure, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 36248938650     PISSN: 16874714     EISSN: 16874722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/23807     Document Type: Article

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