On combining statistical methods and frequency warping for high-quality voice conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4665-4668

  Erro, Daniel ^a   Polyakova, Tatyana ^a   Moreno, Asunción ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion; Weighted frequency warping

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VOICE CONVERSION; WEIGHTED FREQUENCY WARPING;

ACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER NETWORKS; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; STATISTICS; WEAVING;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 51449121679     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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