Reduced search space frame alignment based on kullback-leibler divergence for voice conversion

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

Volumn 7911 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 83-88

  Shahrebabaki, Abdoreza Sabzi ^a   Amini, Jamal ^a   Sheikhzadeh, Hamid ^a   Ghorbandoost, Mostafa ^a   Faraji, Neda ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

GMM; KLD; Nearest neighbour

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

ACOUSTIC INFORMATION; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; PHONETIC INFORMATION; SEARCH SPACES; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TEXT INDEPENDENTS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84888273467     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38847-7_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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