Speech analysis/synthesis by Gaussian mixture approximation of the speech spectrum for voice conversion

IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, IEEE ISSPIT 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 428-433

  Amini, Jamal ^a   Shahrebabaki, Abdoreza Sabzi ^a   Shokouhi, Navid ^a   Sheikhzadeh, Hamid ^a   Raahemifar, Kaamran ^b   Eslami, Mehdi ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis Synthesis; Feature Extraction; GMM; STRAIGHT; Voice Conversion

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS/SYNTHESIS; COMPUTATION COSTS; GMM; SPECTRAL MODIFICATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRAIGHT; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84899122951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2013.6781919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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