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タイトル: Increasing Speech Intelligibility by Mimicking Professional Announcers’ Voices and Its Physical Correlates
著者: Tran, Dung Kim
Akagi, Masato
Unoki, Masashi
キーワード: spectral tilt
spectral plateau
cepstral peak prominence
PCA
STOI
voice conversion
発行日: 2023-10-31
出版者: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
誌名: 2023 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC)
開始ページ: 1187
終了ページ: 1192
DOI: 10.1109/APSIPAASC58517.2023.10317261
抄録: Previous studies found that speech uttered by professional announcers is more intelligible than that by nonexperts in noisy environments. On the basis of this finding, we developed a voice-conversion (VC) system to mimic professional announcers’ voices by modifying the speaker embedding of nonexpert speech. The results from our experiments to evaluate this system indicated that intelligibility increased significantly with this system. In this paper, to discuss what physical features correlate to the intelligibility, the following two issues are investigated by analyzing this system: (1) whether speech intelligibility can be changed gradually even by shifting one PCA (principal component analysis) component of the speaker embedding of the above VC system and (2) what physical features are changed when the PCA component is shifted, we retrained the VC system with a larger amount of training data. Comparing the speech intelligibility and candidate features that were changed with the shift of one axis of PCA, we found that spectral tilt, spectral plateau, and cepstral peak prominence are strongly correlated with intelligibility.
Rights: This is the author's version of the work. Copyright (C) 2023 IEEE. 2023 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Taipei, Taiwan, 2023, pp. 1187-1192, doi: 10.1109/APSIPAASC58517.2023.10317261. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/18769
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