A system for voice conversion based on adaptive filtering and line spectral frequency distance optimization for text-to-speech synthesis

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2417-2420

  Salor, Özgül ^a   Demirekler, Mübeccel ^a   Pellom, Bryan ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOMAPPING; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONSISTENT TRANSFORMATIONS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LINE SPECTRAL FREQUENCIES; LINE SPECTRAL PAIRS; LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; VOICE CONVERSION ALGORITHM; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARE ESTIMATION;

ADAPTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 85009168692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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