@inproceedings{42344b9ec6574f0796879c01f4cf98fe,
title = "Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices",
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",
keywords = "Perceptual evaluation, Prosody modeling, Speech synthesis, Voice transformation",
author = "Esther Klabbers and Alexander Kain and {Van Santen}, {Jan P.H.}",
note = "Funding Information: 1This project was funded by NIH STTR grant 1R41DC008712-01: User Adaptation of AAC Voices and the Nancy Lurie Marks foundation project “In Your Own Voice: Personal Augmentative and Alternative Communication Voices for Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders” and was a collaboration between Biospeech, Inc. and OHSU. OHSU and the authors have a significant financial interest in BioSpeech, Inc., a company that may have a commercial interest in the results of this research and technology. This potential conflict was reviewed and managed by OHSU and the Integrity Program Oversight Council. Funding Information: This project was funded by NIH STTR grant 1R41DC008712-01: User Adaptation of AAC Voices and the Nancy Lurie Marks foundation project “In Your Own Voice: Personal Augmentative and Alternative Communication Voices for Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders” and was a collaboration between Biospeech, Inc. and OHSU. OHSU and the authors have a significant financial interest in BioSpeech, Inc., a company that may have a commercial interest in the results of this research and technology. This potential conflict was reviewed and managed by OHSU and the Integrity Program Oversight Council.",
year = "2010",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010",
publisher = "International Speech Communication Association",
pages = "2154--2157",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010",
}