A novel technique for voice conversion based on style and content decomposition with bilinear models

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2655-2658

  Popa, Victor ^a   Nurminen, Jani ^b   Gabbouj, Moncef ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILINEAR MODELS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LINE SPECTRAL FREQUENCIES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SMALL TRAINING; SPECTRAL CONTENT; TRAINING ALGORITHMS; VOICE CONVERSION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450171770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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