An improved one-to-many eigenvoice conversion system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1080-1083

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

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigenvoice conversion; Global variance; Mixed excitation; Speaker adaptive training; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TRAINING; CONVERSION ALGORITHM; CONVERSION MODEL; CONVERSION SYSTEMS; EIGENVOICES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GLOBAL VARIANCE; MIXED EXCITATION; PARALLEL DATA; TARGET SPEAKER;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867204921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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