The matching-minimization algorithm, the INCA algorithm and a mathematical framework for voice conversion with unaligned corpora

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2016-May, Issue , 2016, Pages 5645-5649

  Agiomyrgiannakis, Yannis ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

INCA; matching minimization; nearest neighbour; voice conversion; voice transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973373608     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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