A study on bag of Gaussian Model with application to voice conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 657-660

  Qiao, Yu ^a,b   Tong, Tong ^a,c   Minematsu, Nobuaki ^d  

^a SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bag of Gaussian model; GMM; Linear regression; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

BGM MODEL; CONVERSION FUNCTION; DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; GAUSSIAN MODEL; GMM; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; REGRESSION FUNCTION; VOICE CONVERSION; WEIGHTED SUMMATIONS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR REGRESSION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84865763441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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