Duration modelling in voice conversion using artificial neural networks

2012 19th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 556-559

  Srikanth, Ronanki ^a   Bajibabu, B ^a   Prahallad, Kishore ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks; Prosody Modification; Voice Transformation

Indexed keywords

OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PROSODY FEATURES; PROSODY MODIFICATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH SOUNDS; TARGET SPEAKER; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE QUALITY;

IMAGE PROCESSING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84863934040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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