Using bidirectional associative memories for joint spectral envelope modeling in voice conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7884-7888

  Liu, Li Juan ^a   Chen, Ling Hui ^a   Ling, Zhen Hua ^a   Dai, Li Rong ^a  

^a National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing   (China)

Author keywords

bidirectional associative memory; contrastive divergence; Spectral envelope modeling; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BI-DIRECTIONAL ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTRASTIVE DIVERGENCE; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; MODELING ABILITIES; NATURAL REPRESENTATION; SPECTRAL ENVELOPE MODELING; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84905223323     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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