An overview of voice conversion systems

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi; Alexander Kain

doi:10.1016/j.specom.2017.01.008

An overview of voice conversion systems

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

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Abstract

Voice transformation (VT) aims to change one or more aspects of a speech signal while preserving linguistic information. A subset of VT, Voice conversion (VC) specifically aims to change a source speaker's speech in such a way that the generated output is perceived as a sentence uttered by a target speaker. Despite many years of research, VC systems still exhibit deficiencies in accurately mimicking a target speaker spectrally and prosodically, and simultaneously maintaining high speech quality. In this work we provide an overview of real-world applications, extensively study existing systems proposed in the literature, and discuss remaining challenges.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	65-82
Number of pages	18
Journal	Speech Communication
Volume	88
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2017.01.008
State	Published - Apr 1 2017

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Overview
Survey
Voice conversion

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Software
Modeling and Simulation
Communication
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Science Applications

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