VTLN-based voice conversion

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 556-559

  Sundermann D ^a   Ney, H ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer science; Frequency; Parameter estimation; Piecewise linear techniques; Smoothing methods; Speech recognition; Target tracking; Training data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING; TARGET TRACKING;

FREQUENCY; PIECE-WISE LINEAR FUNCTIONS; SMOOTHING METHODS; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; TRAINING DATA; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS; WARPING FUNCTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84948175540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2003.1341181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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