An improved method for voice conversion based on Gaussian mixture model

ICCASM 2010 - 2010 International Conference on Computer Application and System Modeling, Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 404-407

  Chen, Xie ^a   Zhang, Wei Qiang ^a   Liu, Jia ^a   Bao, Xiuguo ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CNCERT/CC ^*  (China)

Author keywords

GMM; STRAIGHT; Vocal tract length (VTL); Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

ADAPTIVE INTERPOLATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GUASSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; SPEECH TRANSFORMATION; STRAIGHT; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; VOCAL TRACT LENGTHS; VOICE CONVERSION;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78649552740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCASM.2010.5619037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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