Sparse nonlinear representation for voice conversion

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Nakashika, Toru ^a   Takiguchi, Tetsuya ^b   Ariki, Yasuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Joint Density; Parallel Dictionary Learning; Restricted Boltzmann Machine; Sparse Representation; Voice Conversion

Indexed keywords

FACTORIZATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

DICTIONARY LEARNING; JOINT DENSITIES; RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINE; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; VOICE CONVERSION;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 84946019814     PISSN: 19457871     EISSN: 1945788X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2015.7177437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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