Noise-Robust Voice Conversion Based on Spectral Mapping on Sparse Space

8th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 71-75

  Takashima, Ryoichi ^a   Aihara, Ryo ^a   Takiguchi, Tetsuya ^a   Ariki, Yasuo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

noise robustness; nonnegative matrix factorization; sparse representation; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MATRIX FACTORIZATION; PHOTOMAPPING;

BASE MATRIX; COMPUTATION TIME; EXEMPLAR BASED METHODS; EXEMPLAR-BASED; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION TECHNIQUES;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 84905271796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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