Adaptive training for voice conversion based on eigenvoices

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E93-D, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1589-1598

  Ohtani, Yamato ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive training; Eigenvoice; Gaussian mixture model; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADAPTIVE PARAMETERS; ADAPTIVE TRAINING; EIGENVOICES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 77952978184     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.1589     Document Type: Article

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