| Presentation | 2014-01-24 A study of effective features for controlling the auditory impression based on voice morphing Masanori MORISE, Satoshi TSUZUKI, Hideki BANNO, Kenji OZAWA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In this article, a method for controlling the auditory impression (defined as only muffled and brisk speech) is introduced. Auditory impression defined in this article differs from speech articulation because the human perceives the different impression regardless of the phoneme and syllable information when they listen to two different types of speech. A criterion based on the vocal tract area function (VATF) has been proposed to identify the auditory impression. To improve the auditory impression by voice conversion, this research focuses on the several parameters including VTAF. Muffled and brisk speech uttered by ten speakers was morphed with several parameters, and a subjective evaluation was carried out to demonstrate the effective parameter associated with the auditory impression. F0, aperiodicity, VATF and residual spectrum were used for the experiment. The result indicated that the VATF and residual spectrum affects the auditory impression, and it suggested that the auditory impression was controlled by only the spectral envelope. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Speech analysis/synthesis / voice conversion / vocal tract area function / voice morphing |
| Paper # | SP2013-105 |
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| Conference Date | 2014/1/16(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | A study of effective features for controlling the auditory impression based on voice morphing |
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| Keyword(1) | Speech analysis/synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | voice conversion |
| Keyword(3) | vocal tract area function |
| Keyword(4) | voice morphing |
| 1st Author's Name | Masanori MORISE |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Satoshi TSUZUKI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi |
| 3rd Author's Name | Hideki BANNO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University |
| 4th Author's Name | Kenji OZAWA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi |
| Date | 2014-01-24 |
| Paper # | SP2013-105 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.113 |
| Number (no) | 404 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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