| Presentation | 2014-01-24 Contributing factors in preference judgement in read sentences using morphing of individual attributes Shoki YOSHIMOTO, Ryuichi NISIMURA, Toshio IRINO, Hideki KAWAHARA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | A new research strategy based on a recently proposed morphing algorithm, time varying multi-aspect N-way speech morphing algorithm, is applied to investigate evaluation and control of speech (voice) "attractiveness." The new algorithm generates a morphed speech using arbitrarily many numbers of speech samples in a one staged procedure. The morphing rates in this formulation can be manipulated independently using a time series for each of five physical parameters and, in addition, can have negative values. In the current report, a set of representative utterances of spoken sentences having different "attractiveness" were selected to generate a set of stimulus continuum using the morphing procedure. Preliminary tests indicated that morphing of physical parameter actually morphs "attractiveness" in a monotonic way. Using independent control of physical attributes, morphed speech stimuli which are corresponding to vertices of a five dimensional hyper cube in the attribute space were generated. They were evaluated their "attractiveness" by subjective tests of paired comparison to investigate contributions of each physical attribute. Finally, exploratory research using speech neutralization and caricaturization, which were made feasible by the new algorithm, discussed as a prospective direction of further study. |
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| Keyword(in English) | VOCODER / morphing / periodicity interference / subjective test / exploration |
| Paper # | SP2013-104 |
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| Conference Date | 2014/1/16(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | Contributing factors in preference judgement in read sentences using morphing of individual attributes |
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| Keyword(1) | VOCODER |
| Keyword(2) | morphing |
| Keyword(3) | periodicity interference |
| Keyword(4) | subjective test |
| Keyword(5) | exploration |
| 1st Author's Name | Shoki YOSHIMOTO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Ryuichi NISIMURA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Toshio IRINO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University |
| 4th Author's Name | Hideki KAWAHARA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University |
| Date | 2014-01-24 |
| Paper # | SP2013-104 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.113 |
| Number (no) | 404 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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