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Real-Time Full-Band Voice Conversion with Sub-Band Modeling and Data-Driven Phase Estimation of Spectral Differentials Takaaki SAEKI Yuki SAITO Shinnosuke TAKAMICHI Hiroshi SARUWATARI
Publication: Publication Date: 2021/07/01 Vol. E104-D No. 7 ; pp. 1002-1016 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: voice conversion, spectral differentials, deep neural networks, data-driven phase, sub-band modeling,
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Speech Chain VC: Linking Linguistic and Acoustic Levels via Latent Distinctive Features for RBM-Based Voice Conversion Takuya KISHIDA Toru NAKASHIKA
Publication: Publication Date: 2020/11/01 Vol. E103-D No. 11 ; pp. 2340-2350 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: voice conversion, restricted Boltzmann machine, speech chain, one-shot voice conversion,
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Tensor Factor Analysis for Arbitrary Speaker Conversion Daisuke SAITO Nobuaki MINEMATSU Keikichi HIROSE
Publication: Publication Date: 2020/06/01 Vol. E103-D No. 6 ; pp. 1395-1405 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: voice conversion, Gaussian mixture models, eigenvoice, tensor factor analysis, Tucker decomposition,
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Voice Conversion for Improving Perceived Likability of Uttered Speech Shinya HORIIKE Masanori MORISE
Publication: Publication Date: 2020/05/01 Vol. E103-D No. 5 ; pp. 1199-1202 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speech analysis/synthesis, voice conversion, spectral envelope, likability,
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HMM-Based Maximum Likelihood Frame Alignment for Voice Conversion from a Nonparallel Corpus Ki-Seung LEE
Publication: Publication Date: 2017/12/01 Vol. E100-D No. 12 ; pp. 3064-3067 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: nonparallel speech corpus, voice conversion, hidden Markov model, maximum likelihood criterion,
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Statistical Bandwidth Extension for Speech Synthesis Based on Gaussian Mixture Model with Sub-Band Basis Spectrum Model Yamato OHTANI Masatsune TAMURA Masahiro MORITA Masami AKAMINE
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2016/10/01 Vol. E99-D No. 10 ; pp. 2481-2489 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Spoken Language Processing) Category: Voice conversion Keyword: speech enhancement, voice conversion, bandwidth extension, sub-band basis spectrum model, Gaussian mixture model,
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A Novel Iterative Speaker Model Alignment Method from Non-Parallel Speech for Voice Conversion Peng SONG Wenming ZHENG Xinran ZHANG Yun JIN Cheng ZHA Minghai XIN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2015/10/01 Vol. E98-A No. 10 ; pp. 2178-2181 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: non-parallel speech, voice conversion, iterative speaker model alignment, Gaussian mixture model,
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Cross-Dialectal Voice Conversion with Neural Networks Weixun GAO Qiying CAO Yao QIAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2014/11/01 Vol. E97-D No. 11 ; pp. 2872-2880 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: voice conversion, neural network, cross-dialectal, frequency warping, pre-training, sequence training,
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A Hybrid Approach to Electrolaryngeal Speech Enhancement Based on Noise Reduction and Statistical Excitation Generation Kou TANAKA Tomoki TODA Graham NEUBIG Sakriani SAKTI Satoshi NAKAMURA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2014/06/01 Vol. E97-D No. 6 ; pp. 1429-1437 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advances in Modeling for Real-world Speech Information Processing and its Application) Category: Voice Conversion and Speech Enhancement Keyword: speaking-aid, electrolaryngeal speech, spectral subtraction, voice conversion, hybrid approach,
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Noise-Robust Voice Conversion Based on Sparse Spectral Mapping Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization Ryo AIHARA Ryoichi TAKASHIMA Tetsuya TAKIGUCHI Yasuo ARIKI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2014/06/01 Vol. E97-D No. 6 ; pp. 1411-1418 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advances in Modeling for Real-world Speech Information Processing and its Application) Category: Voice Conversion and Speech Enhancement Keyword: voice conversion, sparse representation, non-negative matrix factorization, noise robustness,
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Voice Timbre Control Based on Perceived Age in Singing Voice Conversion Kazuhiro KOBAYASHI Tomoki TODA Hironori DOI Tomoyasu NAKANO Masataka GOTO Graham NEUBIG Sakriani SAKTI Satoshi NAKAMURA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2014/06/01 Vol. E97-D No. 6 ; pp. 1419-1428 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advances in Modeling for Real-world Speech Information Processing and its Application) Category: Voice Conversion and Speech Enhancement Keyword: singing voice, voice conversion, perceived age, spectral and prosodic features, subjective evaluations,
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Voice Conversion Based on Speaker-Dependent Restricted Boltzmann Machines Toru NAKASHIKA Tetsuya TAKIGUCHI Yasuo ARIKI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2014/06/01 Vol. E97-D No. 6 ; pp. 1403-1410 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advances in Modeling for Real-world Speech Information Processing and its Application) Category: Voice Conversion and Speech Enhancement Keyword: voice conversion, restricted Boltzmann machine, deep learning, speaker individuality,
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Mapping Articulatory-Features to Vocal-Tract Parameters for Voice Conversion Narpendyah Wisjnu ARIWARDHANI Masashi KIMURA Yurie IRIBE Kouichi KATSURADA Tsuneo NITTA
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2014/04/01 Vol. E97-D No. 4 ; pp. 911-918 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: voice conversion, articulatory feature, neural network, arbitrary speaker,
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Exemplar-Based Voice Conversion Using Sparse Representation in Noisy Environments Ryoichi TAKASHIMA Tetsuya TAKIGUCHI Yasuo ARIKI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2013/10/01 Vol. E96-A No. 10 ; pp. 1946-1953 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Sparsity-aware Signal Processing) Category: Keyword: voice conversion, exemplar-based, sparse coding, non-negative matrix factorization, noise robustness,
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Esophageal Speech Enhancement Based on Statistical Voice Conversion with Gaussian Mixture Models Hironori DOI Keigo NAKAMURA Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2010/09/01 Vol. E93-D No. 9 ; pp. 2472-2482 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Processing Natural Speech Variability for Improved Verbal Human-Computer Interaction) Category: Voice Conversion Keyword: laryngectomees, esophageal speech, speech enhancement, voice conversion, eigenvoice conversion,
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HMM-Based Voice Conversion Using Quantized F0 Context Takashi NOSE Yuhei OTA Takao KOBAYASHI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2010/09/01 Vol. E93-D No. 9 ; pp. 2483-2490 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Processing Natural Speech Variability for Improved Verbal Human-Computer Interaction) Category: Voice Conversion Keyword: voice conversion, HMM-based speech synthesis, F0 quantization, prosodic context, nonparallel data,
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Evaluation of Extremely Small Sound Source Signals Used in Speaking-Aid System with Statistical Voice Conversion Keigo NAKAMURA Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2010/07/01 Vol. E93-D No. 7 ; pp. 1909-1917 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Keyword: laryngectomee, speaking aid, electrolarynx, voice conversion, NAM, enhancing auditory feedback,
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Adaptive Training for Voice Conversion Based on Eigenvoices Yamato OHTANI Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2010/06/01 Vol. E93-D No. 6 ; pp. 1589-1598 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speech synthesis, voice conversion, Gaussian mixture model, eigenvoice, adaptive training,
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Average-Voice-Based Speech Synthesis Using HSMM-Based Speaker Adaptation and Adaptive Training Junichi YAMAGISHI Takao KOBAYASHI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2007/02/01 Vol. E90-D No. 2 ; pp. 533-543 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: HMM-based speech synthesis, speaker adaptation, speaker adaptive training (SAT), hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM), maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR), voice conversion,
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Hybrid Voice Conversion of Unit Selection and Generation Using Prosody Dependent HMM Tadashi OKUBO Ryo MOCHIZUKI Tetsunori KOBAYASHI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2006/11/01 Vol. E89-D No. 11 ; pp. 2775-2782 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: voice conversion, speech synthesis, HMM, unit selection, MLLR,
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Optimal Temporal Decomposition for Voice Morphing Preserving Δ Cepstrum Yoshinao SHIRAKI
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2004/03/01 Vol. E87-A No. 3 ; pp. 577-583 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Applications and Implementations of Digital Signal Processing) Category: Audio/Speech Coding Keyword: voice morphing, voice conversion, interpolation of spectra, temporal decomposition, spectrum distortion, DP matching, Δ cepstrum,
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Voice Conversion Using Low Dimensional Vector Mapping Ki-Seung LEE Won DOH Dae-Hee YOUN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2002/08/01 Vol. E85-D No. 8 ; pp. 1297-1305 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: voice conversion, KLT, soft clustering and pitch modification,
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