Prosody Modifications for Voice Conversion

Dhiman, J K (2013) Prosody Modifications for Voice Conversion. Masters thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

Preview

Text
EE11M1004.pdf - Submitted Version
Download (2MB)

Abstract

Generally defined, speech modification is the process of changing certain perceptual properties of speech while leaving other properties unchanged. Among the many types of speech information that may be altered are rate of articulation, pitch and formant characteristics.Modifying the speech parameters like pitch, duration and strength of excitation by desired factor is termed as prosody modification. In this thesis prosody modifications for voice conversion framework are presented. Among all the speech modifications for prosody two things are important firstly modification of duartion and pauses (Time scale modification) in a speech utterance and secondly modification of the pitch(pitch scale modification).Prosody modification involves changing the pitch and duration of speech without affecting the message and naturalness.In this work time scale and pitch scale modifications of speech are discussed using two methods Time Domain Pitch Synchronous Overlapped-Add (TD-PSOLA) and epoch based approach.In order to apply desired speech modifications TD-PSOLA discussed in this thesis works directly on speech in time domian although there are many variations of TD-PSOLA.The epoch based approach involves modifications of LP-residual.

[error in script]

IITH Creators: