Pitch-synchronous granular synthesis

The basic goal of the voice conversion system is to modify the speaker-specific characteristics, keeping the message and the environmental information contained in the speech signal intact. Speaker characteristics reflect in speech at different levels, ...

This paper describes a technique for synthesizing speech with an arbitrary speaker's voice using speaker-independent speech units, which we call “average voice”models. The proposed method is based on an HMM-based text-to-speech synthesis system. In the ...