Electrolaryngeal speech enhancement based on statistical voice conversion

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1431-1434

  Nakamura, Keigo ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrolarynx; Laryngectomee; Speaking aid; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

LARYNGECTOMEES; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SPEECH CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450183063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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