Mixture of factor analyzers using priors from non-parallel speech for voice conversion

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 914-917

  Wu, Zhizheng ^a,b   Kinnunen, Tomi ^c   Chng, Eng Siong ^a   Li, Haizhou ^d,e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

factor analysis; mixture of factor analyzers; prior knowledge; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION FUNCTION; MIXTURE OF FACTOR ANALYZERS; PARALLEL TRAINING; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; MIXTURES;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84869384026     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2012.2225615     Document Type: Article

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