Locally linear embedding for exemplar-based spectral conversion

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

Volumn 08-12-September-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 1652-1656

  Wu, Yi Chiao ^a   Hwang, Hsin Te ^a   Hsu, Chin Cheng ^a   Tsao, Yu ^b   Wang, Hsin Min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Exemplar; Locally linear embedding; Voice conversion; Voice conversion challenge

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COMPENSATION METHOD; EXEMPLAR; LOCALLY LINEAR EMBEDDING; LOCALLY LINEAR EMBEDDING ALGORITHMS; MANIFOLD LEARNING ALGORITHM; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84994247053     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2016-567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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