Mapping frames with DNN-HMM recognizer for non-parallel voice conversion

2015 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 488-494

  Dong, Minghui ^a   Yang, Chenyu ^a   Lu, Yanfeng ^a   Ehnes, Jochen Walter ^a   Huang, Dongyan ^a   Ming, Huaiping ^a   Tong, Rong ^a   Lee, Siu Wa ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MAPPING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CLUSTERING METHODS; CLUSTERING RESULTS; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; MAPPING METHOD; PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD; SIMILAR CONVERSIONS; SPEECH SEGMENTS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84986188691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSIPA.2015.7415320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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