Evaluation of speaking-aid system with voice conversion for laryngectomees toward its use in practical environments

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2209-2212

  Nakamura, Keigo ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Nakajima, Yoshitaka ^b   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory feedback; Laryngectomee; Non audible murmur microphone; Speaking aid; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY FEEDBACK; LARYNGECTOMEE; NON-AUDIBLE MURMUR; SPEAKING-AID; VOICE CONVERSION;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MICROPHONES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION AIDS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84867208056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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