Incorporating durational modification in voice transformation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1088-1091

  Toth, Arthur ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Speech synthesis; Voice transformation

Indexed keywords

CURRENT TECHNIQUES; DURATION MODELS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MIXTURE MODEL; SPECTRAL ASPECTS; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH QUALITY; TARGET SPEAKER; TRAINING AND TESTING; TRANSFORMATION MODEL; VOICE TRANSFORMATIONS;

METADATA; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867198266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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