Spoken Language Conversion with Accent Morphing

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 64-70

  Huckvale, Mark ^a   Yanagisawa, Kayoko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION SYSTEMS; FOREIGN ACCENTS; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; MORPHING; NEW APPROACHES; PHONETIC MATERIALS; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; TARGET LANGUAGE; TTS SYSTEMS; VOICE CONVERSION;

EID: 67650666088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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