Spectral conversion using deep neural networks trained with multi-source speakers

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 4849-4853

  Liu, Li Juan ^a   Chen, Ling Hui ^a,b   Ling, Zhen Hua ^a   Dai, Li Rong ^a  

^a National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing   (China)

^b IFLYTEK RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

deep neural networks; source speaker independent mapping; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

INITIALIZATION METHODS; PARALLEL TRAINING; RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINE; SPEAKER DEPENDENTS; SPEAKER INDEPENDENT MODEL; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION;

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84946076200     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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