Analysis of the voice conversion challenge 2016 evaluation results

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

Volumn 08-12-September-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 1637-1641

  Wester, Mirjam ^a   Wu, Zhizheng ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Voice conversion challenge

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EVALUATION; EVALUATION RESULTS; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE DATA;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84994351528     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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