Improved F0 modeling and generation in voice conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4568-4571

  Kunikoshi, Aki ^a,b   Qian, Yao ^a   Soong, Frank ^a   Minematsu, Nobuaki ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

F0 generation; v u decision model; Voice Conversion; Voicing Strength

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; F0 GENERATION; NORMALIZED CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PROBABILISTIC SPACE; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICING STRENGTH;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 80051624021     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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