Can voice conversion be used to reduce non-native accents?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7879-7883

  Aryal, Sandesh ^a   Gutierrez Osuna, Ricardo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accent conversion; nonnative speech; Spanish accent; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMERICAN ENGLISH; LINGUISTIC SIMILARITIES; LISTENING TESTS; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; PARALLEL CORPORA; SPANISH ACCENT; TRAINING PROCESS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84905281157     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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