Cross-language voice conversion based on eigenvoices

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1635-1638

  Charlier, Malorie ^a,b   Ohtani, Yamato ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Moinet, Alexis ^b   Dutoit, Thierry ^b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cross language; Eigenvoice conversion; Speech synthesis; Unsupervised adaptation; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION ACCURACIES; CONVERSION MODEL; CROSS-LANGUAGE; EIGENVOICES; FRAME SELECTION; PARALLEL DATA; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; SPEECH QUALITY; TARGET SPEAKER; UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE QUALITY;

MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70450205902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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