Pitch transformation in neural network based voice conversion

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 197-200

  Xie, Feng Long ^a,b   Qian, Yao ^b   Soong, Frank K ^b   Li, Haifeng ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

neural network; pitch; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

CONVERSION SYSTEMS; DISCONTINUITY PROPERTY; F0 CONTOURS; NORMALIZED TRANSFORMATIONS; PITCH; RESEARCH TOPICS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; VOICE CONVERSION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84912078522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCSLP.2014.6936599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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