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Vocal Effort Modification through Harmonics Plus Noise Model Representation

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Harmonics plus Noise Model (HNM) is a well known speech signal representation technique that allows to apply high quality modifications to the signal used in text-to-speech systems providing higher flexibility than its counterpart TD-PSOLA based synthesis systems. In this paper an adaptation of the adaptive pre-emphasis linear prediction technique for modifying the vocal effort, using HNM speech representation, is presented. The proposed transformation methodology is validated using a Copy Re-synthesis strategy on a speech corpora specifically designed with three levels of vocal effort (soft, modal and loud). The results of a perceptual test demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique performing all different vocal effort conversions for the given corpus.

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Calzada, À., Socoró, J.C. (2011). Vocal Effort Modification through Harmonics Plus Noise Model Representation. In: Travieso-González, C.M., Alonso-Hernández, J.B. (eds) Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing. NOLISP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25020-0_13

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