Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voice quality conversion device, voice quality conversion method and program
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Application No.: US16079383Application Date: 2017-02-22
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Publication No.: US10311888B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Toru Nakashika , Yasuhiro Minami
- Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS
- Current Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2016-032488 20160223
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/006478 WO 20170222
- International Announcement: WO2017/146073 WO 20170831
- Main IPC: G10L21/00
- IPC: G10L21/00 ; G10L21/013 ; G10L21/007 ; G10L25/00

Abstract:
A voice conversion device includes: a parameter learning unit in which a probabilistic model that uses speech information, speaker information, and phonological information as variables to thereby express relationships among binding energies between any two of the speech information, the speaker information and the phonological information by parameters is prepared, wherein the speech information is obtained based on a speech, the speaker information corresponds to the speech information, and the phonological information expresses the phoneme of the speech, and in which the parameters are determined by performing learning by sequentially inputting the speech information and the speaker information into the probabilistic model; and a voice conversion processing unit that performs voice conversion processing of the speech information obtained on the basis of the speech of an input speaker, based both on the parameters determined by the parameter learning unit and on the speaker information of a target speaker.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190051314A1 VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION DEVICE, VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION METHOD AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2019-02-14
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