Novel method for data clustering and mode selection with application in voice conversion

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2258-2261

  Nurminen, Jani ^a   Tian, Jilei ^a   Popa, Victor ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Data driven; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLUSTERING; DATA DRIVEN; HEURISTIC SOLUTIONS; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SPEECH FEATURES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 44949235351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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