| Presentation | 2010-10-09 Statistical Voice Conversion Techniques for Alaryngeal Speech Enhancement Tomoki TODA, Keigo NAKAMURA, Hironori DOI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Laryngectomees need some alternative methods of speaking to produce alaryngeal speech. Their common problem is that any type of alaryngeal speech suffers from lack of naturalness and speaker individuality. To address this problem, we have developed statistical voice conversion techniques for alaryngeal speech enhancement and have demonstrated that they yield significant improvements in naturalness and speaker individuality of three types of alaryngeal speech: 1) esophageal speech; 2) electrolaryngeal speech; and 3) body-conducted silent electrolaryngeal speech. This paper gives an overview of our developed technologies for alaryngeal speech enhancement. |
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| Keyword(in English) | speaking-aid / alaryngeal speech / voice conversion / naturalness / speaker individuality |
| Paper # | PRMU2010-102,SP2010-58,WIT2010-46 |
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| Conference Date | 2010/10/1(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | Statistical Voice Conversion Techniques for Alaryngeal Speech Enhancement |
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| Keyword(1) | speaking-aid |
| Keyword(2) | alaryngeal speech |
| Keyword(3) | voice conversion |
| Keyword(4) | naturalness |
| Keyword(5) | speaker individuality |
| 1st Author's Name | Tomoki TODA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Keigo NAKAMURA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| 3rd Author's Name | Hironori DOI |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| Date | 2010-10-09 |
| Paper # | PRMU2010-102,SP2010-58,WIT2010-46 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.110 |
| Number (no) | 221 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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