Voice conversion for various types of body transmitted speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3601-3604

  Toda, Tomoki ^a   Nakamura, Keigo ^a   Sekimoto, Hidehiko ^a,b   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OMRON CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body transmitted speech; Noise robust speech communication; Silent speech communication; Speaking aid; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

BODY TRANSMITTED SPEECH; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SILENT SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEAKING AID; VOICE CONVERSION;

ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70349200844     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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