A new method for pitch prediction from spectral envelope and its application in voice conversion

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1753-1756

  En Najjary, Taoufik ^a   Rosec, Olivier ^a   Chonavel, Thierry ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; ITS APPLICATIONS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; MODEL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION FUNCTION; SPECTRAL ENVELOPE PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; VOICE CONVERSION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84946210905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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