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Presentation 2009-11-27 10:00
Cross-speaker and cross-language voice conversion based on structural representation of speech
Ryusuke Mihara, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo.) SP2009-71
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Speech acoustics easily vary due to non-linguistic factors such as speaker differences and microphone differences. The authors already proposed a structural representation of speech, where these variations can be effectively removed. This representation discards absolute and static properties of speech events and captures only their relative and dynamic features. Recently, a new framework of speech synthesis based on this structural representation has been proposed. Here, an utterance is characterized by two separate attributes, speaker-independent speech form
and speaker-dependent embodiment features found in that utterance. On this framework, a new utterance is generated by realizing a given speech form acoustically and this realization is enabled by providing speaker-dependent embodiment features. This generation process can be viewed as implementation of infants' vocal imitation on a machine. In this report, based on this structural representation, cross-speaker and cross-language voice conversion is implemented. A speaker’s two utterances of Japanese and English are modeled as a single speech form. By providing another speaker’s Japanese utterance of the same content, the English utterance of that speaker will be generated using the speech form. In this report, the performance of the proposed method is evaluated and its problems are also made clear.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) structural representation of speech / speaker-invariance / vocal imitation / language conversion / speaker conversion / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 308, SP2009-71, pp. 55-60, Nov. 2009.
Paper # SP2009-71 
Date of Issue 2009-11-19 (SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee SP  
Conference Date 2009-11-26 - 2009-11-27 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Shizuoka University 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) language acquisition, language learning, speech synthesis, speech production, prosody, etc. 
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Conference Code 2009-11-SP 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) Cross-speaker and cross-language voice conversion based on structural representation of speech 
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Keyword(1) structural representation of speech  
Keyword(2) speaker-invariance  
Keyword(3) vocal imitation  
Keyword(4) language conversion  
Keyword(5) speaker conversion  
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1st Author's Name Ryusuke Mihara  
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo.)
2nd Author's Name Daisuke Saito  
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo.)
3rd Author's Name Nobuaki Minematsu  
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo.)
4th Author's Name Keikichi Hirose  
4th Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo.)
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Date Time 2009-11-27 10:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for SP 
Paper # SP2009-71 
Volume (vol) vol.109 
Number (no) no.308 
Page pp.55-60 
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Date of Issue 2009-11-19 (SP) 


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