Statistical approach for voice personality transformation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 641-651

  Lee, Ki Seung ^a  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood (ML) estimation; Prosody modification; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; CEPSTRUM; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; INFORMAL LISTENING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML) ESTIMATION; MODIFICATION FACTORS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; PITCH PERIODS; PROBABILISTIC CLASSIFICATIONS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROSODY MODIFICATION; SPEAKING RATES; SPECTRAL CONTOURS; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATISTICAL APPROACHES; TARGET SPEAKERS; TIME-SCALE MODIFICATIONS; TRAINING DATUM; TRANSFORMATION METHODS; VOICE CONVERSION;

BLOCK CODES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 38149065136     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876760     Document Type: Article

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