Non-parallel voice conversion using joint optimization of alignment by temporal context and spectral distortion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7909-7913

  Benisty, H ^a   Malah, D ^a   Crammer, K ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM); INCA; Non Parallel Voice Conversion; Spectral Distance

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ITERATIVE METHODS; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; INCA; ITERATIVE ESTIMATION; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; SPECTRAL DISTANCES; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84905234183     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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