Foreign accent conversion through voice morphing

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3077-3081

  Aryal, Sandesh ^a   Felps, Daniel ^a   Gutierrez Osuna, Ricardo ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Accent conversion; Voice morphing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC QUALITY; FOREIGN ACCENTS; MORPHING; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MEASURES; PARALLEL RECORDING; PULSE DENSITY MODULATION; SPECTRAL SLOPES; VOICE MORPHING;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84905277636     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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