Voice conversion using dynamic features for high quality transformation

Wei Wang; Zhen Yang

doi:10.1117/12.855168

26 February 2010 Voice conversion using dynamic features for high quality transformation

Wei Wang, Zhen Yang

Proceedings Volume 7546, Second International Conference on Digital Image Processing; 75463Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855168
Event: Second International Conference on Digital Image Processing, 2010, Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

A novel voice morphing method is proposed to make the speech of the source speaker sound like the voice uttered by a target speaker. This method is based on the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). However, the traditional GMM has the over-smoothed phenomenon and may get discontinuity of the converted speech due to the inaccuracy of the extracted feature information. In order to overcome it, we consider the dynamic spectral features between frames. The conversion function is also modified to deal with the discontinuities. The Speech Transformation and Representation using Adaptive Interpolation of weiGHTed spectrogram (STRAIGHT) algorithm is adopted for the analysis and synthesis process. Objective and perceptual experiments show that the quality of the speech converted by our proposed method is significantly improved compared with the traditional GMM method.

Citation Download Citation

Wei Wang and Zhen Yang "Voice conversion using dynamic features for high quality transformation", Proc. SPIE 7546, Second International Conference on Digital Image Processing, 75463Q (26 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855168

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available