Voice conversion in time-invariant speaker-independent space

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7889-7893

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

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

conditional restricted Boltzmann machine; deep learning; speaker specific features; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; CONDITIONAL RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINES; DEEP LEARNING; NEURAL NETWORK (NN); OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SPEAKER-SPECIFIC FEATURES; TIME INVARIANTS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84905252390     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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