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1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling:
From Control Strategies to Acoustics
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1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling:
From Control Strategies to Acoustics
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This study investigates the importance of the physiological domain in voice transformation. Voice transformation is defined as the process of modifying the voice quality of sentence-level speech while maintaining the same phonetic content. Transformation occurs as a function of gender, age, emotional state, disordered state, or impersonation. The basic question is: relative to pure signal processing, can voices be transformed more effectively if biomechanical, acoustic, and anatomical scaling principles are applied? The work reported here is an extension of Childer's work (1989) into the physiologic domain.
Bibliographic reference. Titze, Ingo R. / Wong, Darrell / Lange, Robert / Story, Brad (1996): "Comparison of three techniques for voice transformation", In SPM-1996, 217-220.