Exploring mutual information for GMM-based spectral conversion

2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 50-54

  Hwang, Hsin Te ^a,c   Tsao, Yu ^b   Wang, Hsin Min ^c   Wang, Yih Ru ^a   Chen, Sin Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

GMM; mutual information; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GMM; JOINT DENSITIES; JOINT PROPERTY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERION; MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; TARGET FEATURE; TRAINING METHODS; VOICE CONVERSION;

STEREOPHONIC BROADCASTING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84874485325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCSLP.2012.6423477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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