Exemplar-based unit selection for voice conversion utilizing temporal Information

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3057-3061

  Wu, Zhizheng ^a   Virtanen, Tuomas ^b   Kinnunen, Tomi ^c   Chng, Eng Siong ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a,d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Multi frame exemplar; Temporal information; Unit selection; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DISCONTINUITY PROBLEMS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MULTI-FRAME; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT SELECTION APPROACH; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84906276055     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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