Unaligned training for voice conversion based on a local nonlinear principal component analysis approach

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 437-444

  Makki, Behrooz ^a   Hosseini, Mona Noori ^a   Seyyedsalehi, Seyyed Ali ^a   Sadati, Nasser ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Autoassociative neural network; Local nonlinear principal component analysis; Unaligned voice conversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952877243     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-009-0275-x     Document Type: Article

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