Application of voice conversion to hearing-impaired Mandarin speech enhancement

Chen Long Lee; Wen-Whei Chang; Yuan Chuan Chiang

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2004-596

Application of voice conversion to hearing-impaired Mandarin speech enhancement

Chen Long Lee, Wen-Whei Chang, Yuan Chuan Chiang

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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This paper studies the application of voice conversion to hearing-impaired Mandarin speech enhancement. The system is based on the combined use of a sinusoidal analysis-synthesis model and a priori knowledge about Mandarin syllable phonetic structures. We propose a time-scale modification algorithm that finds accurate alignments between hearing-impaired and normal utterances. Using the alignments, spectral conversion is performed by a continuous probabilistic transform based on a Gaussian mixture model. Simulation results indicate that the proposed system can improve the intelligibility of hearing-impaired Mandarin speech.

Original language	American English
Pages	1829-1832
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2004-596
State	Published - Oct 2004
Event	8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004 - Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of Duration: 4 Oct 2004 → 8 Oct 2004

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Conference	8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Jeju, Jeju Island
Period	4/10/04 → 8/10/04

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