Interpretable parametric voice conversion functions based on Gaussian mixture models and constrained transformations

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-15

  Erro, Daniel ^a,b   Alonso, Agustin ^a   Serrano, Luis ^a   Navas, Eva ^a   Hernaez, Inma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amplitude scaling; Frequency warping; Gaussian mixture models; Spectral tilt; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

AMPLITUDE SCALING; FREQUENCY WARPING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; SPECTRAL TILT; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84913585254     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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