Using phone and diphone based acoustic models for voice conversion: A step towards creating voice fonts

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages I393-I396

  Kumar, Arun ^a   Verma, Ashish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH SIGNALS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TARGET SPEAKER; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION TECHNIQUES;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84908466787     PISSN: 19457871     EISSN: 1945788X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2003.1220937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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