Minnesang: speak medieval German

We present a prototype of the Minnesang exhibit that translates visitors' utterances into medieval German in their own voice. This lets visitors experience how they would have spoken in medieval times. The project illustrates new variants of voice conversion and their use in human-computer interaction. Keywords Cross-language voice conversion, voice imitation, interactive exhibit, medieval language ACM Classification Keywords C.3 Special-purpose and application-based systems: Signal processing systems. H.5.2 User Interfaces: Voice I/O. H.5.5 Sound and Music Computing: Signal analysis, synthesis, and processing.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Daniel Spelmezan, Jan Borchers
• Keywords: CHI 2006, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Cross-language Voice, Voice Conversion, Voice Imitation