Enhancement of Esophageal speech using statistical voice conversion

APSIPA ASC 2009 - Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association 2009 Annual Summit and Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 805-808

  Doi, Hironori ^a   Nakamura, Keigo ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESOPHAGEAL SPEECH; EXCITATION PARAMETERS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LARYNGECTOMEES; NOVEL METHODS; SOUND SOURCE; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; SPEECH SOUNDS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; DATA PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 77950549255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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