TC-Star: Cross-Language Voice Conversion Revisited (2008)
David Sündermann, Harald Höge, Antonio Bonafonte, Hermann Ney, Julia Hirschberg
In the framework of the European speech-to-speech translation project TC-Star, one of the research tasks is cross-language voice conversion. In the recent second evaluation campaign, five...
H.: Residual Prediction (2008)
David Sündermann, Harald Höge, Antonio Bonafonte, Helenca Duxans
Residual prediction is a technique that aims at recovering the spectral details of speech that was encoded using parameterizations as linear predictive coefficients. Example applications of residual...
Phil Hall, Harald Höge, Asuncion Moreno, Antonio Rincon, Francesco Senia
The SALA II project comprises mobile telephone recordings according to the SpeechDat (II) paradigm for several languages in North and Latin America. Each database contains the recordings of 1000...
SALA II across the finish line: a large collection of mobile telephone speech (2008)
Databases From North, Phil Hall, Harald Höge, Asuncion Moreno, Antonio Rincon, ...
The SALA II project comprises mobile telephone recordings according to the SpeechDat (II) paradigm for several languages in North and Latin America. Each database contains the recordings of 1000...
Text-independent voice conversion based on unit selection (2006)
David Sündermann, Harald Höge, Antonio Bonafonte, Hermann Ney, Alan Black, Shri Narayanan
So far, most of the voice conversion training procedures are text-dependent, i.e., they are based on parallel training utterances of source and target speaker. Since several applications (e.g....
Residual Prediction Based on Unit Selection (2005)
David Sündermann, Harald Höge, Antonio Bonafonte, Hermann Ney, Alan W Black
Recently, we presented a study on residual prediction techniques that can be applied to voice conversion based on linear transformation or hidden Markov model-based speech synthesis. Our voice...
Residual Prediction Based on Unit Selection (2005)
David Sündermann, Harald Höge, Antonio Bonafonte, Hermann Ney, Alan W Black
Recently, we presented a study on residual prediction techniques that can be applied to voice conversion based on linear transformation or hidden Markov model-based speech synthesis. Our voice...
Voice conversion using exclusively unaligned training data (2004)
Sündermann, David, Bonafonte Cávez, Antonio, Höge, Harald, Ney, Hermann
Although all conventional voice conversion approaches require equivalent training utterances of source and target speaker, several recently proposed applications call for breaking this demand. In...
Voice conversion sing exclusively unaligned training data (2004)
Although all conventional voice conversion approaches require equivalent training utterances of source and target speaker, several recently proposed applications call for breaking this demand. In...
Voice conversion sing exclusively unaligned training data (2004)
Although all conventional voice conversion approaches require equivalent training utterances of source and target speaker, several recently proposed applications call for breaking this demand. In...
SPEECON - Speech Data for Consumer Devices (2000)
Rainer Siemund, Harald Höge, Siegfried Kunzmann, Krzysztof Marasek
SPEECON, launched in February 2000, is a project focusing on collecting linguistic data for speech recogniser training. Put into action by an industrial consortium, it promotes the development of...
Speechdat Multilingual Speech Databases For Teleservices: Across The Finish Line (1999)
Harald Höge, Christoph Draxler, Finn Tore Johansen, Eric Sanders, Eric S, ...
The goal of the SpeechDat project is to develop spoken language resources for speech recognisers suited to realise voice driven teleservices. SpeechDat created speech databases for all official...