Evaluation of cross-language voice conversion using bilingual and non-bilingual databases

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 293-296

  Mashimo, Mikiko ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Kawanami, Hiromichi ^a   Kashioka, Hideki ^a,b   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a   Campbell, Nick ^a,b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CROSS LANGUAGES; DISTANCE MEASURE; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; PRONUNCIATION EVALUATIONS; TEST EFFECTIVENESS; TRAINING SYSTEMS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 85009189109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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