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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Improved F0 modeling and generation in voice conversion
F0 is an acoustic feature that varies largely from one speaker to another. F0 is characterized by a discontinuity in the transition between voiced and unvoiced sounds that present...
Aki Kunikoshi, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Nobuaki M...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Mining entity translations from comparable corpora: a holistic graph mapping approach
This paper addresses the problem of mining named entity translations from comparable corpora, specifically, mining English and Chinese named entity translation. We first observe...
Jinhan Kim, Long Jiang, Seung-won Hwang, Young-In ...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
Text-independent voice conversion based on state mapped codebook
Voice conversion has become more and more important in speech technology, but most of current works have to use parallel utterances of both source and target speaker as the traini...
Meng Zhang, Jianhua Tao, Jilei Tian, Xia Wang
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study on Language Model Adaptation Using a Metric of Domain Similarity
Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study on four techniques of language model adaptation, including a maximum a posteriori (MAP) method and three discriminative training mo...
Wei Yuan, Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki
ISM
2005
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Key Distributions as Musical Fingerprints for Similarity Assessment
— This paper presents a pitch-based approach for creating musical fingerprints for similarity assessment. An effective measure for musical similarity impacts music indexing and c...
Arpi Mardirossian, Elaine Chew