Quality improvement of voice conversion systems based on trellis structured vector quantization

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 665-668

  Eslami, Mahdi ^a   Sheikhzadeh, Hamid ^b   Sayadiyan, Abolghasem ^b  

^a Department of Commercial   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Trellis; Vector quantization; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION FUNCTION; CONVERSION METHODS; HIGH QUALITY; INTER-FRAME; LOW COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MODEL SIZE; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SPEECH FRAMES; SPEECH QUALITY; TIME DOMAIN; TRELLIS; VOICE CONVERSION;

PHOTOMAPPING; SPEECH PROCESSING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865743085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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