Iterative MMSE estimation of vocal tract length normalization factors for voice transformation

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 86-89

  Erro, Daniel ^a   Navas, Eva ^a   Hernáez, Inma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Frequency warping plus amplitude scaling; Speech synthesis; Vocal tract length normalization; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE CORRECTION; AMPLITUDE SCALING; CEPSTRAL DOMAIN; CONVERSION ACCURACIES; ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; SINGLE PARAMETER; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; VOICE CONVERSION;

ITERATIVE METHODS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84878409257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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