The use of air-pressure sensor in electrolaryngeal speech enhancement based on statistical voice conversion

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1628-1631

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

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air pressure sensor; Electrolarynx; Laryngectomee; Speaking aid; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE SENSORS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH PRODUCTION AIDS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AIR PRESSURES; ELECTROLARYNX; LARYNGECTOMEE; SPEAKING-AID; VOICE CONVERSION; AIR-PRESSURE; AIR-PRESSURE SENSOR; ELECTROLARYNGEAL SPEECH; F0 CONTOURS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LARYNGECTOMEES; VOICE CONVERSION TECHNIQUES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; PRESSURE SENSORS;

EID: 79959833617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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