A unit selection approach for voice transformation

Speech Communication

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-43

  Lee, Ki Seung ^a  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov model; Unit selection; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; LINEAR PREDICTION COEFFICIENTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERIA; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TRANSFORMATION METHODS; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT SELECTION APPROACH; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84896464538     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2014.02.002     Document Type: Article

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