Statistical singing voice conversion with direct waveform modification based on the spectrum differential

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2514-2518

  Kobayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Neubig, Graham ^a   Sakti, Sakriani ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential spectral compensation; Gaussian mixture model; Singing voice; Statistical voice conversion; Vocoder

Indexed keywords

PHOTODEGRADATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VOCODERS;

ANALYSIS AND MODELING; CONVERSION ACCURACIES; CONVERSION PROCESS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; SINGING VOICES; SPECTRAL COMPENSATION; VOICE CONVERSION; WAVEFORM MODIFICATIONS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84910073131     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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