A ANN based high quality method for voice conversion

2010 6th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chen, Z ^a   Zhang, L H ^a  

^a Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications   (China)

Author keywords

ANN; GMM; Pitch conversion; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ANN; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CONVERSION METHODS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GMM; HIGH QUALITY; JOINT PARAMETERS; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; PITCH CONVERSION; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; SPEECH QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

MOBILE COMPUTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 78549246173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WICOM.2010.5600720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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