A hybrid approach to electrolaryngeal speech enhancement based on spectral subtraction and statistical voice conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3067-3071

  Tanaka, Kou ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Neubig, Graham ^a   Sakti, Sakriani ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrolaryngeal speech; Hybrid approach; Speaking aid; Spectral subtraction; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ELECTROLARYNGEAL SPEECH; HYBRID APPROACH; SPEAKING-AID; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84905244240     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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