Voice conversion using General Regression Neural Network

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 24, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-12

  Nirmal, Jagannath ^a   Zaveri, Mukesh ^b   Patnaik, Suprava ^b   Kachare, Pramod ^b  

^a Department of Electronics Engineering KJSCOE   (India)

^b SARDAR VALLABHBHAI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Gaussian Mixture Model; General Regression Neural Network; Pitch contour; Radial Basis Function; Voice conversion; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPPING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GENERAL REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORK; PITCH CONTOURS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; VOICE CONVERSION; KEYWORDS- GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS;

NEURAL NETWORKS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84905573362     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.06.040     Document Type: Article

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