Efficient modeling of temporal structure of speech for applications in voice transformation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1631-1634

  Nguyen, Binh Phu ^a   Akagi, Masato ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Spectral modification; Temporal decomposition; Voice transformation

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; SPECTRAL DYNAMICS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SPECTRAL MODIFICATIONS; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH SIGNALS; TEMPORAL DECOMPOSITION; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TIME DOMAIN; TIME FREQUENCY DOMAIN; TRANSFORMATION METHODS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450207337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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