| Presentation | 2020-06-12 Improving the pronounce clarity of dysarthric speech using CycleGAN Shuhei Imai, Takashi Nose, Aoi Kanagaki, Satoshi Watanabe, Akinori Ito, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Several voice conversion systems have been developed that converts the dysarthric speech into healthy speech.The conventional methods, however, require a large amount of dysarthric speech for realizing a high-quality voice output.Preparing such a database is burdensome for those people with dysarthria.In this paper, we investigate a method to improve intelligibility by learning the conversion from dysarthric speech to healthy speech with multiple speakers using CycleGAN-VC2, an efficient and high-quality VC algorithm in the task of unpaired voice conversion.We trained VC models with CycleGAN-VC2 using healthy speech with multiple speaker and relatively small amount of dysarthric speech, and compared the performance of converted speech by subjective and objective evaluation. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Dysarthria / Pronounce clarity / Voice conversion / CycleGAN |
| Paper # | WIT2020-1 |
| Date of Issue | 2020-06-05 (WIT) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | WIT |
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| Conference Date | 2020/6/12(1days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Online meeting |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Well-being Information Technology, etc. |
| Chair | Daisuke Wakatsuki(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) |
| Vice Chair | Shinji Sakou(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| Secretary | Shinji Sakou(Saitama Industrial Tech. Center) |
| Assistant | Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Minako Hosono(AIST) / Aki Sugano(Nagoya Univ.) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Improving the pronounce clarity of dysarthric speech using CycleGAN |
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| Keyword(1) | Dysarthria |
| Keyword(2) | Pronounce clarity |
| Keyword(3) | Voice conversion |
| Keyword(4) | CycleGAN |
| 1st Author's Name | Shuhei Imai |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takashi Nose |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Aoi Kanagaki |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Satoshi Watanabe |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Human Techno System(HTS) |
| 5th Author's Name | Akinori Ito |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.) |
| Date | 2020-06-12 |
| Paper # | WIT2020-1 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.120 |
| Number (no) | WIT-63 |
| Page | pp.pp.1-6(WIT), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2020-06-05 (WIT) |