Non-linear pitch modification in voice conversion using artificial neural networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7911 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 97-103

  Bollepalli, Bajibabu ^a   Beskow, Jonas ^a   Gustafson, Joakim ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MODIFICATION METHODS; PITCH MODIFICATION; SPEAKING STYLES; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MEASURES; VOICE CONVERSION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84888246669     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38847-7_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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