Lawlor, Bob (1999) A Novel Efficient Algorithm for Voice Gender Conversion. In: 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 1-7 August 1999, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Abstract
Realistic Voice Gender Conversion (VGC) requires
independent scaling of the glottal (pitch) and vocal tract
(formant) related features of the input speech signal. We
present a VGC algorithm which has two novel features.
Firstly, an efficient frequency scaling algorithm is presented.
Secondly, we use this to scale all frequencies in the input
signal by the desired formant scaling factor. We then
deconvolve the glottal contribution using a standard linear
predictive analysis and frequency scale it further such that the
desired pitch scaling factor is equal to the product of the two
frequency scaling factors. Finally, we resynthesize the
converted speech. The female-to-male results were excellent
while the male-to-female results sounded synthetic.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Keywords: | Algorithm; Voice Gender Conversion; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering |
Item ID: | 9766 |
Depositing User: | Robert Lawlor |
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2018 14:38 |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/9766 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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