Synthesizing breathiness in natural speech with sinusoidal modelling

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1790-1793

  Matthews, Brett ^a   Bakis, Raimo ^a   Eide, Ellen ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Concatenative TTS; Sinusoidal modelling; Speech modification; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CUTOFF FREQUENCY; MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ANALOG COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONCATENATIVE TTS; LISTENING TESTS; MESSAGE SIGNALS; SINUSOIDAL MODEL; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE MORPHING; WIDEBAND SPEECH;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34547544857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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