LSF mapping for voice conversion with very small training sets

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4669-4672

  Helander, Elina ^a   Nurminen, Jani ^b   Gabbouj, Moncef ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Line spectral frequencies; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

LINE SPECTRAL FREQUENCIES; SMALL TRAINING; VOICE CONVERSION;

MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES;

EID: 51449107658     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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