Improving segmental GMM based voice conversion method with target frame selection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 483-487

  Gu, Hung Yan ^a   Tsai, Sung Fung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

discrete cepstral coefficient; frame selection; GMM; Variance ratio; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; FRAME SELECTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMMS); MIXTURE COMPONENTS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPECTRAL FEATURE; VARIANCE RATIO; VOICE CONVERSION;

EID: 84912138720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCSLP.2014.6936633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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