Cross-lingual voice conversion-based polyglot speech synthesizer for Indian languages

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 775-779

  Ramani, B ^a   Actlin, Jeeva M P ^a   Vijayalakshmi, P ^a   Nagarajan, T ^a  

^a SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Cross lingual voice conversion; GMM; Polyglot

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC SIMILARITIES; GMM; MEAN OPINION SCORES; MULTILINGUAL TEXTS; POLYGLOT; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84910051772     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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