Voice Transformation: A survey

Author

Stylianou, Yannis

Author_Institution

Multimedia Inf. Lab., Inst. of Comput. Sci.

fYear

2009

fDate

19-24 April 2009

Firstpage

3585

Lastpage

3588

Abstract

Voice transformation refers to the various modifications one may apply to the sound produced by a person, speaking or singing. Voice transformation is usually seen as an add-on or an external system in speech synthesis systems since it may create virtual voices in a simple and flexible way. In this paper we review the state-of-the-art Voice transformation methodology showing its limitations in producing good speech quality and its current challenges. Addressing quality issues of current voice transformation algorithms in conjunction with properties of the speech production and speech perception systems we try to pave the way for more natural Voice Transformation algorithms in the future. Facing the challenges, will allow Voice transformation systems to be applied in important and versatile areas of speech technology; applications that are far beyond speech synthesis.

Keywords

speech processing; speech synthesis; speech perception system; speech production; speech quality; speech synthesis system; voice transformation algorithm; Computer science; Informatics; Production systems; Signal processing; Speaker recognition; Speech coding; Speech enhancement; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Speech production; Voice Transformation; speaking style; speech perception; voice quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009. ICASSP 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2353-8

Electronic_ISBN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960401

Filename

4960401