@article{ETD, school = {Ph.D.}, author = {Mohammadi, Seyed H.}, url = {http://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7478}, title = {Speech representation learning for voice conversion}, publisher = {Oregon Health and Science University}, abstract = {The sound of a person's voice is an important factor in human communication. VoiceConversion (VC) is a technology that modifies a source speaker's speech utterance to sound as if it has been spoken by a target speaker. VC o?ers a number of useful applications. For example, personalizing a text-to-speech system to speak with a new voice with minimal amount of data, or mimicking the voice of another individual when dubbing a movie in another language. In this dissertation, we consider new approaches in the design of VC systems. We propose techniques for learning speech representations with some characteristics that facilitate building systems for VC.}, number = {ETD}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.6083/z316q221w}, recid = {7478}, address = {2019}, }