| Presentation | 2016-03-28 [Poster Presentation] An evaluation of F0 transformation for statistical singing voice conversion based on spectral differential filtering Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | In this report, we propose a technique for cross-gender statistical singing voice conversion (SVC) with direct waveform modification based on spectrum differential (DIFFSVC). SVC makes it possible to convert voice timbre of a source singer into that of a target singer based on a statistical conversion function of acoustic features between these two singers. A traditional SVC framework usually degrades speech quality of the converted singing voice compared to that of a natural singing voice due to waveform generation with vocoder, which causes various errors. To address this issue, the DIFFSVC technique has been proposed as a high quality SVC framework for within-gender conversion by directly using an excitation signal of the input natural singing voice. To make it possible to also apply this SVC framework to cross-gender conversion, in this report, we apply F0 transformation of the excitation signal based on direct waveform modification to DIFFSVC. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed cross-gender DIFFSVC framework significantly improves speech quality while while preserving the conversion accuracy of singer identity compared to the conventional SVC. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | statistical singing voice conversion / cross-gender conversion / direct waveform modification / spectral differential / F0 transformation. |
| Paper # | EA2015-84,SIP2015-133,SP2015-112 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-03-21 (EA, SIP, SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | EA / SP / SIP |
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| Conference Date | 2016/3/28(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Beppu International Convention Center B-ConPlaza |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Engineering/Electro Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, and Related Topics |
| Chair | Yoichi Haneda(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Osamu Houshuyama(NEC) |
| Vice Chair | Yukio Iwaya(Tohoku Gakuin Univ.) / Mitsunori Mizumachi(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Norihide Kitaoka(Tokushima Univ.) / Makoto Nakashizuka(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Masahiro Okuda(Univ. of Kitakyushu) |
| Secretary | Yukio Iwaya(NTT) / Mitsunori Mizumachi(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Norihide Kitaoka(Tokyo City Univ.) / Makoto Nakashizuka(Kobe Univ.) / Masahiro Okuda(NEC) |
| Assistant | Shoichi Koyama(Univ. of Tokyo) / Takashi Nose(Tohoku Univ.) / Taichi Asami(NTT) / Takamichi Miyata(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics / Technical Committee on Speech / Technical Committee on Signal Processing |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | [Poster Presentation] An evaluation of F0 transformation for statistical singing voice conversion based on spectral differential filtering |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | statistical singing voice conversion |
| Keyword(2) | cross-gender conversion |
| Keyword(3) | direct waveform modification |
| Keyword(4) | spectral differential |
| Keyword(5) | F0 transformation. |
| 1st Author's Name | Kazuhiro Kobayashi |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Tomoki Toda |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Nagoya University/Nara Institute of Science and Technology(Nagoya Univ./NAIST) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Satoshi Nakamura |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST) |
| Date | 2016-03-28 |
| Paper # | EA2015-84,SIP2015-133,SP2015-112 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | EA-521,SIP-522,SP-523 |
| Page | pp.pp.105-110(EA), pp.105-110(SIP), pp.105-110(SP), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-03-21 (EA, SIP, SP) |