Speaking-aid systems based on one-to-many eigenvoice conversion for total laryngectomees

APSIPA ASC 2010 - Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 498-501

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

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARYNGEAL SPEECH; CONVERSION MODEL; EIGENVOICES; ESOPHAGEAL SPEECH; LARYNGECTOMEES; SOUND QUALITY; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH SOUNDS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE QUALITY;

DATA PROCESSING; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH PRODUCTION AIDS;

EID: 79958080502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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