A frame mapping based HMM approach to cross-lingual voice transformation

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5120-5123

  Qian, Yao ^a   Xu, Ji ^a,b   Soong, Frank K ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross lingual; HMM based TTS; VTLN

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; CROSS-LINGUAL; HMM-BASED TTS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; SPEECH DATA; TARGET LANGUAGE; TARGET SPEAKER; TRAINING SETS; VTLN;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

MAPPING;

EID: 80051608660     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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