Application of voice conversion for cross-language rap singing transformation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3597-3600

  Türk, Oytun ^a   Büyük, Osman ^b,c   Haznedaroglu, Ali ^b,c   Arslan, Levent M ^b,c  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b SESTEK INC   (Turkey)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Singing voice transformation; Voice conversion; Weighted codebook mapping

Indexed keywords

ALIGNERS; ALIGNMENT METHODS; CODEBOOKS; MUSIC APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL TRAINING; SINGING VOICE TRANSFORMATION; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TEMPORAL SMOOTHING; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION TECHNIQUES; WEIGHTED CODEBOOK MAPPING;

ACOUSTICS; ALIGNMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAPPING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 70349207267     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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