Voice conversion using K-histograms and frame selection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1639-1642

  Uriz, Alejandro José ^a   Agüero, Pablo Daniel ^a   Bonafonte, Antonio ^b   Tulli, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Frame selection; Non gaussian transformation; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

FRAME SELECTION; NEW MODEL; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-GAUSSIAN TRANSFORMATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; TARGET FEATURE; TECHNIQUES USED; TEXT TO SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION; VOICE CONVERSION;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450204589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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