Voice conversion with smoothed GMM and MAP adaptation

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2413-2416

  Chen, Yining ^a   Chu, Min ^b   Chang, Eric ^b   Liu, Jia ^a   Liu, Runsheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LOW PASS FILTERS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS-SYNTHESIS; DISCONTINUOUS FEATURES; IDENTIFIABILITY; SPECTRUM CONVERSION; SPEECH QUALITY; STATE OF THE ART; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84905560807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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