Voice conversion using deep neural networks with speaker-independent pre-training

2014 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 19-23

  Mohammadi, Seyed Hamidreza ^a   Kain, Alexander ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoencoder; Deep neural network; Pre training; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTO ENCODERS; COMPACT REPRESENTATION; CONVERSION ACCURACIES; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; PRE-TRAINING; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84946685887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2014.7078543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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