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Presentation 2013-11-21 14:00
Voice Quality Control Based on Perceptual Age in Statistical Singing Voice Conversion
Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST) SP2013-71
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) The perceptual age of a singing voice is the age of the singer as perceived by the listener, and is one of the notable characteristics that determines perceptions of a song.
In this paper, we describe a novel voice timbre control technique based on the perceptual age for singing voice conversion (SVC).
Singers can sing expressively by controlling prosody and voice timbre, but the varieties of voices that singers can produce are limited by physical constraints.
Previous work has attempted to overcome the limitation through the use of statistical voice conversion.
This technique makes it possible to convert singing voice timbre of an arbitrary source singer into those of an arbitrary target singer.
However, it is still difficult to intuitively control singing voice characteristics by manipulating parameters corresponding to specific physical traits, such as gender and age.
In this paper, we develop a technique for controlling the voice timbre based on perceptual age that maintains the singer's individuality.
The experimental results show that the proposed voice timbre control method makes it possible to change the singer's perceptual age while not having an adverse effect on the perceived individuality.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) singing voice conversion / perceptual age / segmental features / individuality / voice quality control / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 308, SP2013-71, pp. 1-6, Nov. 2013.
Paper # SP2013-71 
Date of Issue 2013-11-14 (SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
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Conference Date 2013-11-21 - 2013-11-22 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Nara Institute of Science and Technology 
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Conference Code 2013-11-SP 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) Voice Quality Control Based on Perceptual Age in Statistical Singing Voice Conversion 
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Keyword(1) singing voice conversion  
Keyword(2) perceptual age  
Keyword(3) segmental features  
Keyword(4) individuality  
Keyword(5) voice quality control  
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1st Author's Name Kazuhiro Kobayashi  
1st Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
2nd Author's Name Tomoki Toda  
2nd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
3rd Author's Name Graham Neubig  
3rd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
4th Author's Name Sakriani Sakti  
4th Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
5th Author's Name Satoshi Nakamura  
5th Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
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Date Time 2013-11-21 14:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
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Paper # SP2013-71 
Volume (vol) vol.113 
Number (no) no.308 
Page pp.1-6 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2013-11-14 (SP) 

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