Voice Conversion based on GMM and Artificial Neural Network

International Conference on Communication Technology Proceedings, ICCT

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1121-1124

  Peng, Danwen ^a   Zhang, Xiongwei ^a   Sun, Jian ^a  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LISTENING TESTS; MAPPING METHOD; SMOOTHING PROBLEMS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; TARGET SPEAKER; VOICE CONVERSION;

PHOTOMAPPING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79951738133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCT.2010.5688637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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