Voice conversion: From spoken vowels to singing vowels

2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1421-1426

  Lay New, Tin ^a   Dong, Minghui ^a   Chan, Paul ^a   Wang, Xi ^a   Ma, Bin ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Music; Singing; Speech; Synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

F0 CONTOURS; F0 FLUCTUATION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LINEAR TRANSFORMATION METHOD; MUSIC; MUSICAL NOTES; MUSICAL SCORE; SCALING METHOD; SINGING; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPEECH SPECTRA; SYNTHESIS; VOICE CONVERSION;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 78349252661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2010.5582961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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