GMM-based voice conversion applied to emotional speech synthesis

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2401-2404

  Kawanami, Hiromichi ^a   Iwami, Yohei ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANALYSIS-SYNTHESIS; DYNAMIC FREQUENCY; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GMM (GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL); PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS; SPECTRUM CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84876497245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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