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Zdeněk Hanzlíček and Jindřich Matoušek : On Using Warping Function for LSFs Transformation in a Voice Conversion System . Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP '08, vol. 3, IEEE Press, Beijing, China, 2008.

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In this paper, a new approach to line spectral frequencies transformation is introduced and employed in the voice conversion framework. This approach stems from the fact that LSFs are some specific points on the frequency axis and their positions determine the shape of the spectral envelope. Thus, they could be transformed directly by frequency axis warping. Two warping functions were designed specially for LSFs and compared with the traditional GMM-based conversion function. Listening tests and mathematical evaluation revealed that speech transformed by using proposed warping functions is of higher quality and does not suffer from oversmoothing which is common for GMM-based transformation. On the other hand, the speaker identity is slightly better transformed by GMM-based conversion. However, it is possible to combine these two approaches to obtain a compromise between quality and speaker identity.

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Název: On Using Warping Function for LSFs Transformation in a Voice Conversion System
Autor: Zdeněk Hanzlíček ; Jindřich Matoušek
Jazyk publikace: anglicky
Datum vydání: 1.10.2008
Rok vydání: 2008
Typ publikace: Stať ve sborníku
Název knihy: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP '08
Číslo vydání: 3
ISBN: 978-1-4244-2178-7
Nakladatel: IEEE Press
Místo vydání: Beijing, China
Datum: 26.10.2008 - 29.10.2008
2008-11-06 09:55:47 / 2009-01-14 13:57:17 /

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voice conversion, warping function

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@INPROCEEDINGS{ZdenekHanzlicek_2008_OnUsingWarping,
 author = {Zden\v{e}k Hanzl\'{i}\v{c}ek and Jind\v{r}ich Matou\v{s}ek},
 title = {On Using Warping Function for LSFs Transformation in a Voice Conversion System},
 year = {2008},
 publisher = {IEEE Press},
 address = {Beijing, China},
 volume = {3},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP '08},
 ISBN = {978-1-4244-2178-7},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/ZdenekHanzlicek_2008_OnUsingWarping},
}