Voicing level control with application in voice conversion

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1713-1716

  Nurminen, Jani ^a   Tian, Jilei ^a   Popa, Victor ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Spectral modification; Voice conversion; Voicing

Indexed keywords

LEVEL CONTROL; PHOTODEGRADATION; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING;

PERCEPTUAL SPEECH QUALITIES; SPECTRAL MODIFICATION; SPEECH QUALITIES; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSIONS; VOICING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149116066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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