Implementation of computationally efficient real-time voice conversion

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 94-97

  Toda, Tomoki ^a   Muramatsu, Takashi ^a   Banno, Hideki ^b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational efficiency; Low delay conversion; Real time processing; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONVERSION ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE MATRICES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMMS); LOW DELAY; REAL-TIME CONVERSION; REALTIME PROCESSING; VOICE CONVERSION;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COVARIANCE MATRIX; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84878390910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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