Alleviating the one-to-many mapping problem in voice conversion with context-dependent modeling

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1627-1630

  Godoy, Elizabeth ^a   Rosec, Olivier ^a   Chonavel, Thierry ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

GMM; Spectral mapping; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT DEPENDENT; ERROR CRITERION; MAPPING PROBLEM; ONE-TO-MANY MAPPING; PHONETIC INFORMATION; SPECTRAL MAPPINGS; SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

PHOTOMAPPING;

EID: 70450186582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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