Phoneme-based spectral voice conversion using temporal decomposition and Gaussian mixture model

HUT-ICCE 2008 - 2nd International Conference on Communications and Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 224-229

  Binh, Phu Nguyen ^a   Akagi, Masato ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model (GMM); Spectral voice conversion; Temporal decomposition

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; PHOTODEGRADATION; TARGETS;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); SPECTRAL VOICE CONVERSION; TEMPORAL DECOMPOSITION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH;

EID: 51549110156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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