Statistical approach to enhancing esophageal speech based on Gaussian mixture models

This paper presents a novel method of enhancing esophageal speech using statistical voice conversion. Esophageal speech is one of the alternative speaking methods for laryngectomees. Although it doesn't require any external devices, generated voices sound unnatural. To improve the intelligibili...

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Hauptverfasser:	Doi, Hironori, Nakamura, Keigo, Toda, Tomoki, Saruwatari, Hiroshi, Shikano, Kiyohiro
Format:	Tagungsbericht
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acoustic noise Degradation eigenvoice conversion esophageal speech Esophagus Information science laryngectomees Loudspeakers Noise generators Speech analysis Speech enhancement Speech processing Virtual colonoscopy voice conversion
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