On Transforming Spectral Peaks in Voice Conversion

7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 68-73

  Godoy, Elizabeth ^a   Rosec, Olivier ^a   Chonavel, Thierry ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

spectral peaks; spectral transformation; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; DATA VARIANCE; FEATURE CORRELATION; GAUSSIAN STATE; POST-PROCESSING; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATE DISTRIBUTIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

METADATA;

EID: 85010285285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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