System fusion for high-performance voice conversion

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2015-January, Issue , 2015, Pages 2759-2763

  Tian, Xiaohai ^a,b   Wu, Zhizheng ^c   Lee, Siu Wa ^d   Hy, Nguyen Quy ^a,b   Dong, Minghui ^d   Chng, Eng Siong ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Joint NTU UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the ElderlyUBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Frequency warping; GMM; Highperformance; System fusion; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; FREQUENCY WARPING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTRA; HIGHPERFORMANCE; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SPEAKER CHARACTERISTICS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84959163883     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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