標題: A Novel Model-based Pitch Conversion Method for Mandarin Speech
作者: Hwang, Hsin-Te
Chiang, Chen-Yu
Sung, Po-Yi
Chen, Sin-Horng
電信工程研究所
Institute of Communications Engineering
關鍵字: prosodic model;pitch conversion;prosody conversion;voice conversion
公開日期: 2009
摘要: In this paper, a novel model-based pitch conversion method for Mandarin is presented and compared with other two conventional conversion methods, i.e. the mean/variance transformation approach and the GMM-based mapping approach. Syllable pitch contour is first quantized by 3(rd) order orthogonal expansion coefficients; then, the source and target speakers' prosodic models are constructed, respectively. Two mapping methods based on the prosodic model are presented. Objective tests confirmed that one of the proposed methods are superior the conventional methods. Some findings in informal listening tests and objective tests are worthwhile to further investigate.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/16347
ISBN: 978-1-61567-692-7
期刊: INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5
起始頁: 2611
結束頁: 2614
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