Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices

Esther Klabbers; Alexander Kain; Jan P.H. Van Santen

Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices

Esther Klabbers, Alexander Kain, Jan P.H. Van Santen

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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)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	2154-2157
Number of pages	4
State	Published - 2010

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Name	Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

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. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010 (pp. 2154-2157). (Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010). International Speech Communication Association.

Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices. / Klabbers, Esther; Kain, Alexander; Van Santen, Jan P.H.

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010. International Speech Communication Association, 2010. p. 2154-2157 (Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Klabbers, E, Kain, A & Van Santen, JPH 2010, Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices. in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010, International Speech Communication Association, pp. 2154-2157.

Klabbers E, Kain A, Van Santen JPH. Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010. International Speech Communication Association. 2010. p. 2154-2157. (Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010).

Klabbers, Esther ; Kain, Alexander ; Van Santen, Jan P.H. / Evaluation of speaker mimic technology for personalizing SGD voices. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010. International Speech Communication Association, 2010. pp. 2154-2157 (Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010).

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