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2004
Springer
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The Analysis of Voice Quality in Speech Processing
Abstract. Voice quality has been defined as the characteristic auditory colouring of an individual's voice, derived from a variety of laryngeal and supralaryngeal features and...
Eric Keller
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Vocal attractiveness of statistical speech synthesisers
Our previous analysis of speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis methods suggested that there are two possible reasons why average voices can obtain higher subjective scores t...
Sandra Andraszewicz, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Voice conversion for various types of body transmitted speech
In this paper, we review our proposed statistical voice conversion approaches to enhancing various types of body transmitted speech captured with non-audible murmur (NAM) micropho...
Tomoki Toda, Keigo Nakamura, Hidehiko Sekimoto, Ki...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Statistical approach to enhancing esophageal speech based on Gaussian mixture models
This paper presents a novel method of enhancing esophageal speech using statistical voice conversion. Esophageal speech is one of the alternative speaking methods for laryngectome...
Hironori Doi, Keigo Nakamura, Tomoki Toda, Hiroshi...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
An evaluation of alaryngeal speech enhancement methods based on voice conversion techniques
In this study, we evaluate our proposed methods for enhancing alaryngeal speech based on statistical voice conversion techniques. Voice conversion based on a Gaussian mixture mode...
Hironori Doi, Keigo Nakamura, Tomoki Toda, Hiroshi...