Maximum a posteriori adaptation for many-to-one eigenvoice conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1461-1464

  Tani, Daisuke ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Ohtani, Yamato ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigenvoice; GMM; MAP; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION PROCESS; EIGENVOICES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GMM; MANY-TO-ONE; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TARGET SPEAKER; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867203066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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