Correlation-based frequency warping for voice conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 211-215

  Tian, Xiaohai ^a,b   Wu, Zhizheng ^c   Lee, S W ^d   Chng, Eng Siong ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Correlation; Frequency warping; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS;

AMPLITUDE SCALING; FREQUENCY WARPING; SPECTRAL DISTANCES; SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS; SPECTRAL SHAPES; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; VOICE CONVERSION; WARPING FUNCTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84912079352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCSLP.2014.6936725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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