Many-to-many eigenvoice conversion with reference voice

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1623-1626

  Ohtani, Yamato ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigenvoice; Gaussian mixture model; Many to many; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

EIGENVOICES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LINGUISTIC CONSTRAINTS; MANY-TO-ONE; PARALLEL DATA; TARGET SPEAKER; VOICE CONVERSION;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; MIXTURES; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450194389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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