A voice conversion method based on joint pitch and spectral envelope transformation

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1225-1228

  En Najjary, Taoufik ^a   Rosec, Olivier ^a   Chonavel, Thierry ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONDITIONAL EXPECTATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPECTRAL ENVELOPE PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH CONVERSION; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 84869508926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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