Voice Transformation

Springer Handbooks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 489-504

  Stylianou, Yannis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dynamic Time Warping; Gaussian Mixture Model; Spectral Envelope; Speech Signal; Vocal Tract

Indexed keywords

EID: 85075914413     PISSN: 25228692     EISSN: 25228706     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49127-9_24     Document Type: Chapter

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