Novel Pre-processing using Outlier Removal in Voice Conversion

9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, SSW 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 134-139

  Rao, Sushant V ^a   Shah, Nirmesh J ^a   Patil, Hemant A ^a  

^a DHIRUBHAI AMBANI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; outliers; robust principal component analysis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PHOTOMAPPING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STATISTICS;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; OUTLIER; OUTLIER REMOVALS; PRE-PROCESSING; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; ROBUST PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPEECH UTTERANCE; TARGET SPEAKER; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION TECHNIQUES;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

EID: 85036464413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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