Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Frame mapping approach for cross-lingual voice transformation
- Patent Title (中): 跨语言转换的帧映射方法
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Application No.: US13079760Application Date: 2011-04-04
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Publication No.: US08594993B2Publication Date: 2013-11-26
- Inventor: Yao Qian , Frank Kao-Ping Soong
- Applicant: Yao Qian , Frank Kao-Ping Soong
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F17/28
- IPC: G06F17/28 ; G10L13/00

Abstract:
Frame mapping-based cross-lingual voice transformation may transform a target speech corpus in a particular language into a transformed target speech corpus that remains recognizable, and has the voice characteristics of a target speaker that provided the target speech corpus. A formant-based frequency warping is performed on the fundamental frequencies and the linear predictive coding (LPC) spectrums of source speech waveforms in a first language to produce transformed fundamental frequencies and transformed LPC spectrums. The transformed fundamental frequencies and the transformed LPC spectrums are then used to generate warped parameter trajectories. The warped parameter trajectories are further used to transform the target speech waveforms in the second language to produce transformed target speech waveform with voice characteristics of the first language that nevertheless retain at least some voice characteristics of the target speaker.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120253781A1 FRAME MAPPING APPROACH FOR CROSS-LINGUAL VOICE TRANSFORMATION Public/Granted day:2012-10-04
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