| Presentation | 2011-08-10 Cross synthesis vocoder that preserves both speech intelligibility and instruments' timbre Taiki NISHI, Ryuichi NISIMURA, Toshio IRINO, Hideki KAWAHARA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | TANDEM-STRAIGHT, an F0-adaptive spectral envelope extraction procedure was applied to cross synthesis VOCODER, which synthesizes sounds by mixing features of two input sounds, such as speech and musical instruments or animal voices. A set of tests with FIR implementation of time-varying filter illustrated potential improvements of intelligibility by using STRAIGHT spectrum of speech sounds, but at the same time, introduced deterioration of instruments' characteristic timbre. A new cross synthesis framework using deviation spectrum of speech sounds and minimum phase implementation of time varying filter was proposed to solve this problem. Preliminary tests suggested that the proposed method reduces this deterioration while preserving intelligibility. |
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| Keyword(in English) | musical instruments / animal voice / cross synthesis / TANDEM-STRAIGHT / VOCODER / intelligibility |
| Paper # | EA2011-64 |
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| Committee | EA |
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| Conference Date | 2011/8/2(1days) |
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| Registration To | Engineering Acoustics (EA) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Cross synthesis vocoder that preserves both speech intelligibility and instruments' timbre |
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| Keyword(1) | musical instruments |
| Keyword(2) | animal voice |
| Keyword(3) | cross synthesis |
| Keyword(4) | TANDEM-STRAIGHT |
| Keyword(5) | VOCODER |
| Keyword(6) | intelligibility |
| 1st Author's Name | Taiki NISHI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Wakayama University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Ryuichi NISIMURA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Wakayama University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Toshio IRINO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Wakayama University |
| 4th Author's Name | Hideki KAWAHARA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Wakayama University |
| Date | 2011-08-10 |
| Paper # | EA2011-64 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.111 |
| Number (no) | 175 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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