Voice timbre control based on perceived age in singing voice conversion

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E97-D, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1419-1428

  Kobayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Doi, Hironori ^a   Nakano, Tomoyasu ^b   Goto, Masataka ^b   Neubig, Graham ^a   Sakti, Sakriani ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Perceived age; Singing voice; Spectral and prosodic features; Subjective evaluations; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PERCEIVED AGE; PROSODIC FEATURES; SINGING VOICES; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84901767453     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1419     Document Type: Article

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