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Voice Conversion applied to Text-to-Speech systems

i Barrobes, 2006

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766297990495479780
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i Barrobes H
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Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

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In this Ph. D. dissertation, the study and design of Voice Conversion (VC) systems are addressed. VC systems modify a speaker voice (source speaker) to be perceived as if another speaker (target speaker) had uttered it. This technology has mainly emerged as a …
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