Regression approaches to perceptual age control in singing voice conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7904-7908

  Kobayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Nakano, Tomoyasu ^b   Goto, Masataka ^b   Neubig, Graham ^a   Sakti, Sakriani ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

perceptual age; regression approaches; singer's individuality; singing voice conversion; voice timbre control

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTROL METHODS; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; PERCEPTUAL AGE; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; REGRESSION APPROACHES; SINGER'S INDIVIDUALITY; SINGING VOICES; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84905223321     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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