Improving the performance of HMM-based voice conversion using context clustering decision tree and appropriate regression matrix format

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2250-2253

  Qin, Long ^a   Wu, Yi Jian ^a   Ling, Zhen Hua ^a   Wang, Ren Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

And regression matrix format; Model adaptation; Regression matrix clustering

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; LINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; CONTEXT CLUSTERING; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; MODEL ADAPTATION; REGRESSION MATRICES; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 44949163704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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