Predicting F0 and voicing from NAM-captured whispered speech

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 107-110

  Tran, Viet Anh ^a   Bailly, Gérard ^a   Loevenbruck, Hélène ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^b  

^a GIPSA LAB   (France)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neural network; Non audible murmur; Voice conversion; Whispered speech

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONVERSION SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; NON-AUDIBLE MURMUR; ORIGINAL SYSTEMS; UNVOICED SPEECH; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICING DECISION; WHISPERED SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77949907441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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