Expressive speech style transformation: Voice quality and prosody modification using a harmonic plus noise model

Carlos Monzo, Àngel Calzada, Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró

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Resumen

This paper proposes an approach to transform speech from a neutral style into other expressive styles using both prosody and voice quality (VoQ). The main aim is to validate the usefulness of VoQ in the enhancement of expressive synthetic speech. A Harmonic plus Noise Model (HNM) is used to modify speech following a set of rules extracted from an expressive speech corpus with five categories (neutral, happy, sensual, aggressive and sad). Finally, modified speech utterances were used to perform a perceptual test. These results indicate that listeners prefer prosody together with VoQ transformation instead of only prosody modification.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojada5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2010
EditorialInternational Speech Communications Association
ISBN (versión digital)9780000000002
EstadoPublicada - 2010
Evento5th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Every Language, Every Style, SP 2010 - Chicago, Estados Unidos
Duración: 10 may 201014 may 2010

Serie de la publicación

NombreProceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
ISSN (versión impresa)2333-2042

Conferencia

Conferencia5th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Every Language, Every Style, SP 2010
País/TerritorioEstados Unidos
CiudadChicago
Período10/05/1014/05/10

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