One-to-many voice conversion based on tensor representation of speaker space

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 653-656

  Saito, Daisuke ^a   Yamamoto, Keisuke ^a   Minematsu, Nobuaki ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigenvoice; Gaussian mixture model; Tensor analysis; Tucker decomposition; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

EIGENVOICES; FLEXIBLE CONTROL; GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; MEAN VECTOR; SPEAKER CHARACTERISTICS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SUPERVECTOR; TENSOR ANALYSIS; TENSOR REPRESENTATION; TRAINING DATA SETS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; TENSORS; VECTOR SPACES;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84865798483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. M. Abe, S. Nakamura, K. Shikano, and H. Kuwabara, "Voice conversion through vector quantization," Proc. ICASSP, pp. 655-658, 1988.
2. A. Kain and M.W. Macon, "Spectral voice conversion for text-tospeech synthesis," Proc. ICASSP, vol. 1, pp. 285-288, 1998.
3. L. Deng, A. Acero, L. Jiang, J. Droppo, and X. Huang, "Highperformance robust speech recognition using stereo training data," Proc. ICASSP, pp. 301-304, 2001.
4. A. Kunikoshi, Y. Qiao, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose, "Speech generation from hand gestures based on space mapping," Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp. 308-311, 2009.
5. S. Desai, E. V. Raghavendra, B. Yegnanarayana, A.W. Black, and K. Prahallad, "Voice conversion using artificial neural networks," Proc. ICASSP, pp. 3893-3896, 2009.
6. Y. Stylianou, O. Cappé, and E. Moulines, "Continuous probabilistic transform for voice conversion," IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 131-142, 1998.
7. A. Mouchtaris, J. V. der Spiegel, and P. Mueller, "Nonparallel training for voice conversion based on a parameter adaptation approach," IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 952-963, 2006.
8. C. H. Lee and C. H. Wu, "Map-based adaptation for speech conversion using adaptation data selection and non-parallel training," Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp. 2254-2257, 2006.
9. T. Toda, Y. Ohtani, and K. Shikano, "Eigenvoice conversion based on Gaussian mixture model," Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp. 2446- 2449, 2006.
10. R. Kuhn, J-C. Junqua, P. Nguyen, and N. Niedzielski, "Rapid speaker adaptation in Eigenvoice space," IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 695-707, 2000.
11. P. Kenny, P. Ouellet, N. Dehak, V. Gupta, and P. Dumouchel, "A study of interspeaker variability in speaker verification," IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 980-988, 2008.
12. M. A. O. Vasilescu and D. Terzopoulos, "Mutilinear analysis of image ensembles: TensorFaces," Proc. ECCV, pp. 447-460, 2002.
13. Y. Ohtani, T. Toda, H. Saruwatari, and K. Shikano, "Speaker adaptive training for one-to-many eigenvoice conversion based on Gaussian mixture model," Proc. INTERSPEECH, pp. 1981-1984, 2007.
14. Y. Ohtani, T. Toda, H. Saruwatari, and K. Shikano, "Non-parallel training for many-to-many eigenvoice conversion," Proc. ICASSP, pp. 4822-4825, 2010.
15. T. Toda, Y. Ohtani, and K. Shikano, "One-to-many and many-toone voice conversion based on eigenvoices," Proc. ICASSP, vol. IV, pp. 693-696, 2007.
16. T. Toda, A.W. Black, and K. Tokuda, "Voice conversion based on maximum-likelihood estimation of spectral parameter trajectory," IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 2222-2235, 2007.
17. L. De Lathauwer, B. De Moor and J. Vandewalle, "A multilinear singular value decomposition," SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 1253-1278, 2000.
18. L. R. Tucker, "Some mathematical notes on three-mode factor analysis," Psychometrika, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 279-311, 1966.
19. Y. Jeong, "Speaker adaptation based on the multilinear decomposition of training speaker models," Proc. ICASSP, pp. 4870-4873, 2010.
20. A. Kurematsu, K. Takeda, Y. Sagisaka, S. Katagiri, H. Kuwabara, and K.Shikano, "ATR Japanese speech database as a tool of speech recognition and synthesis," Speech Communication, vol.9, pp.357-363, 1990.
21. "Jnas: Japanese newspaper article sentences," http://www.milab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/jnas/instruct.html
22. H. Kawahara, I. Masuda-Katsuse, and A.de Cheveigné, "Restructuring speech representations using a pitch-adaptive timefrequency smoothing and an instantaneous-frequency-based F0 extraction: Possible role of a repetitive structure in sounds," Speech Communication, vol.27, pp.187-207, 1999.