Voice conversion using GMM with enhanced Global Variance

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 669-672

  Benisty, Hadas ^a   Malah, David ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Global Variance (GV); GMM; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GLOBAL VARIANCE (GV); GMM; LISTENING TESTS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPECTRAL FEATURE; VOICE CONVERSION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84865754815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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