Maximum a posteriori voice conversion using sequential Monte Carlo methods

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1716-1719

  Helander, Elina ^a   Silén, Hanna ^a   Míguez, Joaquin ^b   Gabbouj, Moncef ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Maximum a posteriori; Particle filter; Smoothing; Viterbi algorithm; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VITERBI ALGORITHM; BANDPASS FILTERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONVERSION ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; PARTICLE FILTER; SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO METHODS; SMOOTHING; SPEECH FEATURE SEQUENCE; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION ALGORITHM; SOURCE FEATURES; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY; TARGET FEATURE; TEMPORAL CONTINUITY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

EID: 79959836789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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