Exemplar-based emotional voice conversion using non-negative matrix factorization

2014 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

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

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; EMOTIONAL VOICES; EXEMPLAR-BASED; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SET ALGORITHM; SOURCE SPECTRUM; SPEECH SIGNALS;

FACTORIZATION;

EID: 84949924136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSIPA.2014.7041640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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