Voice Fonts for Individuality Representation and Transformation

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-

  Verma, Ashish ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Performance; Speech individuality; Standardization; voice conversion; voice fonts

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956828655     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1075389.1075393     Document Type: Article

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