In this paper, we first provide a review of the state-of-the-art emotional voice conversion
research, and the existing emotional speech databases. We then motivate the development …

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to change the emotional state of an utterance while
preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. In this paper, we propose a novel 2 …

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) seeks to convert the emotional state of an utterance while
preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. In EVC, emotions are usually treated …

Emotional voice conversion aims to convert the emotion of speech from one state to another
while preserving the linguistic content and speaker identity. The prior studies on emotional …

Emotional voice conversion aims to transform emotional prosody in speech while preserving
the linguistic content and speaker identity. Prior studies show that it is possible to …

Voice interfaces are becoming wildly popular and driving demand for more advanced
speech synthesis and voice transformation systems. Current text-to-speech methods …

In this paper, we present a database of emotional speech intended to be open-sourced and
used for synthesis and generation purpose. It contains data for male and female actors in …

This paper describes an emotion conversion system that combines independent parameter
transformation techniques to endow a neutral utterance with a desired target emotion. A set …

Emotion is an important element in expressive speech synthesis. Unlike traditional discrete
emotion simulations, this paper attempts to synthesize emotional speech by using" strong"," …

Abstract We propose Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)-based emotional voice conversion
using spectrum and prosody features. In recent years, speech recognition and synthesis …