Sparse representation for frequency warping based voice conversion

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 4235-4239

  Tian, Xiaohai ^a,b   Wu, Zhizheng ^c   Lee, Siu Wa ^d   Hy, Nguyen Quy ^a,b   Chng, Eng Siong ^a,b   Dong, Minghui ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Joint NTU UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the ElderlyUBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

exemplar; frequency warping; residual compensation; sparse representation; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EXEMPLAR; FREQUENCY WARPING; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; RESIDUAL VECTORS; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS; STATISTICAL AVERAGING; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84946020861     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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