An investigation of acoustic features for singing voice conversion based on perceptual age

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1057-1061

  Kobayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Doi, Hironori ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^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

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

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

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

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84905262778     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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