Real-time voice conversion using artificial neural networks with rectified linear units

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1032-1036

  Azarov, Elias ^a   Vashkevich, Maxim ^a   Likhachov, Denis ^a   Petrovsky, Alexander ^a  

^a BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATICS AND RADIOELECTRONICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS; PHOTOMAPPING;

ENTERTAINMENT APPLICATION; HARMONIC PARAMETERS; HARMONIC PLUS NOISE MODEL; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MEASURES; SPECTRAL MAPPINGS; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION TECHNIQUES;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84906281619     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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