Maximum likelihood voice conversion based on GMM with STRAIGHT mixed excitation

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2266-2269

  Ohtani, Yamato ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; Mixed excitation; Speech synthesis; STRAIGHT; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONVERSION ACCURACIES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; JOINT PROBABILITY; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SPECTRAL SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL MODELING; STRAIGHT; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 44949143155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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