Voice conversion by combining frequency warping with unit selection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4661-4664

  Shuang, Zhiwei ^a   Meng, Fanping ^a   Qin, Yong ^a  

^a IBM China Research Lab

Author keywords

Selection; Voice conversion; Warping

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY WARPING; SELECTION; VOICE CONVERSION; WARPING;

ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; TARGETS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 51449112440     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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