TY - GEN N2 - 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. DO - 10.6083/z316q221w DO - DOI AB - 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. T1 - Speech representation learning for voice conversion DA - 2019 AU - Mohammadi, Seyed H. L1 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7478/files/mohammadi.hamidreza.2019.pdf PB - Oregon Health and Science University PY - 2019 ID - 7478 L4 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7478/files/mohammadi.hamidreza.2019.pdf KW - Machine Learning KW - Deep Learning KW - representation learning KW - autoencoder KW - voice conversion KW - voice transformation TI - Speech representation learning for voice conversion Y1 - 2019 L2 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7478/files/mohammadi.hamidreza.2019.pdf LK - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7478/files/mohammadi.hamidreza.2019.pdf UR - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7478/files/mohammadi.hamidreza.2019.pdf ER -