A voice conversion mapping function based on a stacked joint-autoencoder

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

Volumn 08-12-September-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 1647-1651

  Mohammadi, Seyed Hamidreza ^a   Kain, Alexander ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoencoder; Deep neural network; Joint autoencoder; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUTO ENCODERS; BACKPROPAGATION TRAINING; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION CRITERIA; REGRESSION FUNCTION; SYSTEM DESCRIPTION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84994219829     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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