Adaptive voice-quality control based on one-to-many eigenvoice conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2158-2161

  Ohta, Kumi ^a,b   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Ohtani, Yamato ^a,c   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b BROTHER INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigen voices; Unsupervised adaptation; Voice conversion; Voice quality control

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADAPTIVE PARAMETERS; CONTROL PARAMETERS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; SUBSPACE MODELING; UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE QUALITY CONTROLS; CONTROL METHODS; EIGENVOICES; PERFORMANCE; VOICE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 79959847554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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