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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Improved F0 modeling and generation in voice conversion
F0 is an acoustic feature that varies largely from one speaker to another. F0 is characterized by a discontinuity in the transition between voiced and unvoiced sounds that present...
Aki Kunikoshi, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Nobuaki M...
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...
TASLP
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Voice Conversion Using Partial Least Squares Regression
Abstract--Voice conversion can be formulated as finding a mapping function which transforms the features of the source speaker to those of the target speaker. Gaussian mixture mode...
Elina Helander, Tuomas Virtanen, Jani Nurminen, Mo...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Phoneme cluster based state mapping for text-independent voice conversion
This paper takes phonetic information into account for data alignment in text-independent voice conversion. Hidden Markov Models are used for representing the phonetic structure o...
Meng Zhang, Jiaohua Tao, Jani Nurminen, Jilei Tian...
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
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
HMM-based sequence-to-frame mapping for voice conversion
Voice conversion can be reduced to a problem to find a transformation function between the corresponding speech sequences of two speakers. Perhaps the most voice conversions meth...
Yu Qiao, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Acoustic compensation methods for body transmitted speech conversion
Statistical voice conversion is very effective for enhancing body transmitted speech recorded with Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) microphone. In this method, a probabilistic model to co...
Daisuke Miyamoto, Keigo Nakamura, Tomoki Toda, Hir...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Text-independent voice conversion based on state mapped codebook
Voice conversion has become more and more important in speech technology, but most of current works have to use parallel utterances of both source and target speaker as the traini...
Meng Zhang, Jianhua Tao, Jilei Tian, Xia Wang
EFORENSICS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Vocal Forgery in Forensic Sciences
Abstract. This article describes techniques of vocal forgery able to affect automatic speaker recognition system in a forensic context. Vocal forgery covers two main aspects: voice...
Patrick Perrot, Mathieu Morel, Joseph Razik, G&eac...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Voice conversion using Artificial Neural Networks
In this paper, we propose to use Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for voice conversion. We have exploited the mapping abilities of ANN to perform mapping of spectral features of ...
Srinivas Desai, E. Veera Raghavendra, B. Yegnanara...