Pitch transposition and breathiness modification using a glottal source model and its adapted vocal-tract filter

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5128-5131

  Degottex, Gilles ^a   Roebel, Axel ^a   Rodet, Xavier ^a  

^a Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

Author keywords

breathiness; glottal model; pitch transposition; vocal tract filter; Voice transformation

Indexed keywords

BREATHINESS; DETERMINISTIC COMPONENT; GENERIC METHOD; GLOTTAL MODEL; GLOTTAL SOURCE; PITCH TRANSPOSITION; PSEUDO-PERIODIC SIGNALS; SPEECH RECORDING; TWO-STATE; VOCAL-TRACTS; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE PRODUCTION; VOICE SOURCES; VOICED SEGMENT;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80051605261     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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