Loading [a11y]/accessibility-menu.js
Pitch-synchronous time alignment of speech signals for prosody transplantation | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Pitch-synchronous time alignment of speech signals for prosody transplantation


Abstract:

Prosody transplantation is a speech signal modification procedure usually used to voice transformation or to evaluate the quality of speech synthesizers. In practice, the...Show More

Abstract:

Prosody transplantation is a speech signal modification procedure usually used to voice transformation or to evaluate the quality of speech synthesizers. In practice, the pitch contour is mapped onto a common segmental content and the target signal is modified adjusting position and length of speech frames to achieve the desired pitch contour and time duration from a speech reference. A new algorithm for prosody transplantation is presented based on a pitch-synchronous feature extraction of the speech signal, unifying the time-aligning and pitch-modification stages. The result is a computationally efficient algorithm for prosody transplantation that maximizes the spectral similarity between the target and reference signals.
Date of Conference: 15-18 May 2011
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 04 July 2011
ISBN Information:

ISSN Information:

Conference Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

References

References is not available for this document.