High quality voice conversion through phoneme-based linear mapping functions with STRAIGHT for mandarin

Proceedings - Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 410-414

  Liu, Kun ^a   Zhang, Jianping ^a   Yan, Yonghong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Formant transitions; Main vowel; Phoneme based mapping functions; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

FORMANT TRANSITIONS; VOCAL TRACT RESONANCE (VTR); VOICE CONVERSION;

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 44049085520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FSKD.2007.347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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