Non-parallel voice conversion using i-vector PLDA: Towards unifying speaker verification and transformation

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 5535-5539

  Kinnunen, Tomi ^a   Juvela, Lauri ^b   Alku, Paavo ^b   Yamagishi, Junichi ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

i vector; non parallel training; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023740493     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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