Frame alignment method for cross-lingual voice conversion

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1533-1536

  Erro, Daniel ^a   Moreno, Asunción ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alignment; Cross lingual voice conversion; GMM; Speech synthesis; Weighted frequency warping

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALIGNMENT; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC DISTANCES; ACOUSTIC VECTORS; ALIGNMENT METHODS; CROSS-LINGUAL VOICE CONVERSION; EQUIVALENT SOURCES; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; GMM; OPTIMAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARALLEL TRAININGS; PHONEME SETS; TARGET SPEAKERS; TRAINING CORPORA; VOICE CONVERSIONS; WEIGHTED FREQUENCY WARPING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149106209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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