VTLN-based cross-language voice conversion

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 676-681

  Sündermann, David ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a   Höge, Harald ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CROSS LANGUAGES; PIECE-WISE LINEAR FUNCTIONS; SOURCE SPECTRUM; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS; VOICE CONVERSION; WARPING FUNCTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946753271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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