| Presentation | 2010-01-21 Performance evaluation of Voice Conversion Based on F0 Quantization and Non-parallel Training Yuhei OTA, Takashi NOSE, Takao KOBAYASHI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper describes the performance evaluation results of a context-dependent HMM-based voice conversion technique to show its effectiveness by comparing with a GMM-based one. In the HMM-based conversion, first we extract the phonetic and prosodic information from input speech of a source speaker. Then, converted synthetic speech is generated from the pre-trained acoustic model of a target speaker. To appropriately model the pitch information, we use a roughly quantized FO symbol sequence as the prosodic context instead of accent information obtained by manual labeling for training data. By using the phonetically and prosodically context-dependent HMMs, the speaker characteristics appearing in segmental and supra-segmental features can be also converted, which is difficult in conventional GMM-based techniques. Objective and subjective experimental results show that the naturalness and speaker individuality of converted speech are significantly improved by using HMM-based voice conversion. |
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| Keyword(in English) | voice conversion / HMM-based speech synthesis / prosodic information / F0 quantization / GMM |
| Paper # | CQ2009-60,PRMU2009-159,SP2009-100,MVE2009-82 |
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| Conference Date | 2010/1/14(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | Performance evaluation of Voice Conversion Based on F0 Quantization and Non-parallel Training |
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| Keyword(1) | voice conversion |
| Keyword(2) | HMM-based speech synthesis |
| Keyword(3) | prosodic information |
| Keyword(4) | F0 quantization |
| Keyword(5) | GMM |
| 1st Author's Name | Yuhei OTA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takashi NOSE |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 3rd Author's Name | Takao KOBAYASHI |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Date | 2010-01-21 |
| Paper # | CQ2009-60,PRMU2009-159,SP2009-100,MVE2009-82 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.109 |
| Number (no) | 373 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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