Multidimensional scaling of systems in the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016

9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, SSW 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 38-43

  Wester, Mirjam ^a   Wu, Zhizheng ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

evaluation; Voice Conversion Challenge

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DATA SET; DISCRIMINATION TASKS; EVALUATION; IN-BUILDINGS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; SHARED DATA; TALKER DISCRIMINATIONS; TARGET SPEAKER; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION CHALLENGE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85133164470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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