Voice conversion based on Non-negative matrix factorization using phoneme-categorized dictionary

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7894-7898

  Aihara, Ryo ^a   Nakashika, Toru ^a   Takiguchi, Tetsuya ^a   Ariki, Yasuo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

nonnegative matrix factorization; sparse representation; sub dictionary; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

FACTORIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; PARALLEL TRAINING; PHONEME ALIGNMENTS; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; SUB-DICTIONARY; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84905227265     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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