Probabilistic integration of joint density model and speaker model for voice conversion

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1728-1731

  Saito, Daisuke ^a,b   Watanabe, Shinji ^b   Nakamura, Atsushi ^b   Minematsu, Nobuaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Joint density model; Probabilistic unification; Speaker model; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; JOINT DENSITY MODELS; PROBABILISTIC DENSITY; PROBABILISTIC FORMULATION; PROBABILISTIC INTEGRATION; PROBABILISTIC UNIFICATION; SPEAKER MODEL; VOICE CONVERSION; PARALLEL CORPORA; PROBABILISTICS; TARGET SPEAKER;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79959834571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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