Incorporating global variance in the training phase of GMM-based voice conversion

2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hwang, Hsin Te ^a,c   Tsao, Yu ^b   Wang, Hsin Min ^c   Wang, Yih Ru ^a   Chen, Sin Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONVERSION PROCESS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; ITERATIVE PROCESS; SPEECH QUALITY; TRAINING PHASE; VOICE CONVERSION;

DATA PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAPPING; SPEECH PROCESSING; TRAJECTORIES;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84893234191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSIPA.2013.6694179     Document Type: Conference Paper

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