Abstract
In this paper, we demonstrate the use of state-of-the-art speech technology to transform speech from a source speaker to mimic a particular target speaker with the intention of providng personalized voices to users of Speech Generating Devices (SGDs). This speaker mimicry (SM) capability allows us to use high-quality acoustic inventories from professional speakers and transform them to a different target speaker using a very limited set of sentences from that speaker. This technology targets future SGD users who still have a limited vocabulary or available previous recordings. The results of a perceptual study show that listeners can identify which SM voices most resemble their respective target voices. 1
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 2154-2157 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2010 |
| Event | 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Spoken Language Processing for All, INTERSPEECH 2010 - Makuhari, Chiba, Japan Duration: Sep 26 2010 → Sep 30 2010 |
Other
| Other | 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Spoken Language Processing for All, INTERSPEECH 2010 |
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| Country | Japan |
| City | Makuhari, Chiba |
| Period | 9/26/10 → 9/30/10 |
Keywords
- Perceptual evaluation
- Prosody modeling
- Speech synthesis
- Voice transformation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Speech and Hearing
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Klabbers, E., Kain, A., & Van Santen, J. P. H. (2010). Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices. 2154-2157. Paper presented at 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Spoken Language Processing for All, INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan.