Considerations in voice transformation with physiologic scaling principles

Speech Communication

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 113-123

  Titze, Ingo ^a,b   Wong, Darrell ^a,b   Story, Brad ^a,b   Long, Russell ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Denver Center for the Performing Arts   (United States)

Author keywords

Speech simulation; Speech synthesis; Voice conversion; Voice transformation; Vowel quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BIOMECHANICAL SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL SCALING PRINCIPLES; VOICE TRANSFORMATIONS; VOWEL QUALITY;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031197896     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(97)00014-9     Document Type: Article

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