Spectral and prosodic transformations of hearing-impaired Mandarin speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-219

  Lee, Cheng Lung ^a   Chang, Wen Whei ^a   Chiang, Yuan Chuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hearing impaired speaker; Prosodic modification; Sinusoidal model; Spectral conversion; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING;

HEARING-IMPAIRED SPEAKER; PROSODIC MODIFICATION; SINUSOIDAL MODEL; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 29444436810     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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