Genetic algorithm based RBF neural network for voice conversion

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 4215-4218

  Zuo, Guoyu ^a,b   Liu, Wenju ^a   Ruan, Xiaogang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; RBF neural network; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; RBF NEURAL NETWORKS; VOICE CONVERSION;

BANDWIDTH; FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 4444228585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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