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Glottal source estimation robustness: A comparison of sensitivity of voice source estimation techniques
Thomas Drugman, Thomas Dubuisson, Alexis Moinet +2
This paper addresses the problem of estimating the voice source directly from speech waveforms. A novel principle based on Anticausality Dominated Regions (ACDR) is used to estimat…
Voice Conversion for Whispered Speech Synthesis
Marius Cotescu, Thomas Drugman, Goeric Huybrechts +2
We present an approach to synthesize whisper by applying a handcrafted signal processing recipe and Voice Conversion (VC) techniques to convert normally phonated speech to whispere…
Using a Pitch-Synchronous Residual Codebook for Hybrid HMM/Frame Selection Speech Synthesis
Thomas Drugman, Alexis Moinet, Thierry Dutoit +1
This paper proposes a method to improve the quality delivered by statistical parametric speech synthesizers. For this, we use a codebook of pitch-synchronous residual frames, so as…
Singing Synthesis: with a little help from my attention
Orazio Angelini, Alexis Moinet, Kayoko Yanagisawa +1
We present UTACO, a singing synthesis model based on an attention-based sequence-to-sequence mechanism and a vocoder based on dilated causal convolutions. These two classes of mode…
Traditional Machine Learning for Pitch Detection
Thomas Drugman, Goeric Huybrechts, Viacheslav Klimkov +1
Pitch detection is a fundamental problem in speech processing as F0 is used in a large number of applications. Recent articles have proposed deep learning for robust pitch tracking…
Comprehensive evaluation of statistical speech waveform synthesis
Thomas Merritt, Bartosz Putrycz, Adam Nadolski +10
Statistical TTS systems that directly predict the speech waveform have recently reported improvements in synthesis quality. This investigation evaluates Amazon's statistical speech…