Voice conversion versus speaker verification: An overview

APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wu, Zhizheng ^a,b   Li, Haizhou ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anti spoofing; Countermeasure; Security; Speaker verification; Spoofing attack; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ANTI-SPOOFING; COUNTERMEASURE; SECURITY; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPOOFING ATTACKS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84956723787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20487703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ATSIP.2014.17     Document Type: Review

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