Pitch and duration transformation with non-parallel data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 111-114

  Lolive, Damien ^a   Barbot, Nelly ^a   Boeffard, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; CROSS VALIDATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; NON-PARALLEL CORPORA; PARALLEL CORPORA; PROSODY TRANSFORMATIONS; SOURCE DATA; TARGET MODEL;

EID: 77953726259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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