4 papers
A Preliminary Investigation on Flexible Singing Voice Synthesis Through Decomposed Framework with Inferrable Features
Lester Phillip Violeta, Taketo Akama
We investigate the feasibility of a singing voice synthesis (SVS) system by using a decomposed framework to improve flexibility in generating singing voices. Due to data-driven app…
Quantifying the effect of speech pathology on automatic and human speaker verification
Bence Mark Halpern, Thomas Tienkamp, Wen-Chin Huang +7
This study investigates how surgical intervention for speech pathology (specifically, as a result of oral cancer surgery) impacts the performance of an automatic speaker verificati…
A Comparative Study of Voice Conversion Models with Large-Scale Speech and Singing Data: The T13 Systems for the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2023
Ryuichi Yamamoto, Reo Yoneyama, Lester Phillip Violeta +2
This paper presents our systems (denoted as T13) for the singing voice conversion challenge (SVCC) 2023. For both in-domain and cross-domain English singing voice conversion (SVC)…
Improving severity preservation of healthy-to-pathological voice conversion with global style tokens
Bence Mark Halpern, Wen-Chin Huang, Lester Phillip Violeta +2
In healthy-to-pathological voice conversion (H2P-VC), healthy speech is converted into pathological while preserving the identity. The paper improves on previous two-stage approach…