Transmutative voice conversion

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 6920-6924

  Mohammadi, Seyed Hamidreza ^a   Kain, Alexander ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

frequency warping; speech transformation; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY WARPING; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL FEATURES; LOW DIMENSIONALITY; OUTPUT PARAMETERS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SPEECH MODELING; SPEECH TRANSFORMATION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84890475857     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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