An evaluation of alaryngeal speech enhancement methods based on voice conversion techniques

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5136-5139

  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

alaryngeal speech; eigenvoice conversion; performance evaluations; speech enhancement; voice conversion

Indexed keywords

ALARYNGEAL SPEECH; EIGENVOICES; ENHANCEMENT EFFECTS; ESOPHAGEAL SPEECH; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LARYNGECTOMEES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION TECHNIQUES; VOICE QUALITY;

ALUMINUM; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80051642767     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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