Text-independent voice conversion based on state mapped codebook

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4605-4608

  Zhang, Meng ^a   Tao, Jianhua ^a   Tian, Jilei ^b   Wang, Xia ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov model; State mapped codebook; Text independent; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TARGETS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; STATE MAPPED CODEBOOK; TEXT-INDEPENDENT; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 51449121435     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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