Non-parallel training for many-to-many eigenvoice conversion

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4822-4825

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

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigenvoice; Gaussian mixture model; Many to many; Non parallel training; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING;

DATA SET; EIGENVOICES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MANY TO MANY; NON-PARALLEL TRAINING; PARALLEL DATA; PARALLEL TRAINING; TARGET SPEAKER; TRAINING METHODS; VOICE CONVERSION;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78049398713     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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