[PDF][PDF] Applying voice conversion to concatenative singing-voice synthesis.

F Villavicencio, J Bonada - Interspeech, 2010 - isca-archive.org
This work address the application of Voice Conversion to singing-voice. The GMM-based
approach was applied to VOCALOID, a concatenative singing synthesizer, to perform singer …

VocaListener and VocaWatcher: Imitating a human singer by using signal processing

M Goto, T Nakano, S Kajita… - … , Speech and Signal …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe three singing information processing systems, VocaListener,
VocaListener2, and VocaWatcher, that imitate singing expressions of the voice and face of a …

Voice processing using conversion function based on respective statistics of a first and a second probability distribution

F Villavicencio - US Patent 9,343,060, 2016 - Google Patents
In Voice processing, a first distribution generation unit approximates a distribution of feature
information represen tative of voice of a first speaker per a unit interval thereof as a mixed …

Observation-model error compensation for enhanced spectral envelope transformation in voice conversion

F Villavicencio, J Bonada… - 2015 IEEE 25th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A strategy to enhance the signal quality and naturalness was designed for performing
probabilistic spectral envelope transformation in voice conversion. The existing modeling …

Applying spectral normalisation and efficient envelope estimation and statistical transformation for the voice conversion challenge 2016

F Villavicencio, J Yamagishi, J Bonada… - Interspeech 2016, 2016 - research.ed.ac.uk
In this work we present our entry for the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016, denoting new
features to previous work on GMM-based voice conversion. We incorporate frequency …

VocaListener2: ユーザ歌唱の音高・音量に加えて声色変化も真似る歌声合成システム

中野倫靖, 後藤真孝 - 情報処理学会論文誌, 2013 - ipsj.ixsq.nii.ac.jp
論文抄録 本論文では, ユーザの歌声からその声色 (こわいろ) 変化を真似て歌声合成するシステム
VocaListener2 を提案する. 本システムは, 我々が以前開発した音高と音量のみを真似て歌声合成 …

人間の歌い方を真似る歌声合成システムVocaListener とロボット顔動作生成システムVocaWatcher (< 特集> 音楽制作と情報処理の友好関係)

後藤真孝, 中野倫靖, 梶田秀司, 松坂要佐… - システム/制御 …, 2012 - jstage.jst.go.jp
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