Activity-mapping non-negative matrix factorization for exemplar-based voice conversion

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 4899-4903

  Aihara, Ryo ^a   Takiguchi, Tetsuya ^a   Ariki, Yasuo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

NMF; non negative matrix factorization; sparse representation; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; FACTORIZATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAPPING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

EXEMPLAR-BASED; FULLY-COUPLED; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; VOICE CONVERSION;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 84946095434     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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