Local linear transformation for voice conversion

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4517-4520

  Popa, Victor ^a   Silen, Hanna ^a   Nurminen, Jani ^b   Gabbouj, Moncef ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM); Line Spectral Frequencies (LSF); Local Linear Transformation (LLT)

Indexed keywords

CLASS OF METHODS; FEATURE VECTORS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LINE SPECTRAL FREQUENCIES; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LISTENING TESTS; LOCAL LINEAR TRANSFORMATION (LLT); LOCAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REMOTE REGIONS; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 84867594339     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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