ML parameter generation with a reformulated MGE training criterion-participation in the voice conversion challenge 2016

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

Volumn 08-12-September-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 1662-1666

  Erro, D ^a,b   Alonso, A ^a   Serrano, L ^a   Tavarez, D ^a   Odriozola, I ^a   Sarasola, X ^a   Del Blanco, E ^a   Sanchez, J ^a   Saratxaga, I ^a   Navas, E ^a   Hernaez, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cepstral postfilter; Linear regression; Maximum likelihood parameter generation; Minimum generation error; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; GENERATION ALGORITHM; MINIMUM GENERATION ERRORS; POSTFILTERS; SOFT CLASSIFICATION; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84994385904     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2016-219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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