Voice conversion based on Gaussian processes by coherent and asymmetric training with limited training data

Speech Communication

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 124-138

  Xu, Ning ^a,b   Tang, Yibing ^a   Bao, Jingyi ^c   Jiang, Aiming ^a   Liu, Xiaofeng ^a   Yang, Zhen ^d  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c CHANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetric training; Coherent training; Gaussian mixture model; Gaussian processes; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; LIMITED TRAINING DATA; NONLINEAR MAPPINGS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; TRAINING STRATEGY; VOICE CONVERSION;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MAPPING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84890539284     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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