Conditional restricted Boltzmann machine for voice conversion

2013 IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, ChinaSIP 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 104-108

  Wu, Zhizheng ^a,b   Chng, Eng Siong ^a,b   Li, Haizhou ^a,b,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

conditional restricted Boltzmann machine; Speech synthesis; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; NON-LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL MODELING; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

DATA PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84889579519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ChinaSIP.2013.6625307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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