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Storytelling Voice Conversion: Evaluation Experiment Using Gaussian Mixture Models

Journal of Electrical Engineering
Volume 66 (2015): Issue 4 (July 2015)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2015-0032 | Journal eISSN: 1339-309X (formerly 1335-3632) | Journal ISSN: 1335-3632
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Language: English
Page range: 194 - 202
Submitted on: Dec 1, 2014
Published on: Sep 19, 2015
Published by: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
storytelling voice conversion,
spectral and prosodic features of speech,
evaluation of speech quality,
GMM classifier
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