Voice transformation by mapping the features at syllable level

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4815 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 479-486

  Rao, K Sreenivasa ^a   Laskar, R H ^b   Koolagudi, Shashidhar G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SILCHAR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL GENERATORS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

MAPPING FUNCTIONS; VOCAL TRACT SYSTEMS; VOICE TRANSFORMATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 38149073264     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77046-6_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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