Title
Robustness of Voice Conversion Techniques Under Mismatched Conditions.
Abstract
Most of the existing studies on voice conversion (VC) are conducted in acoustically matched conditions between source and target signal. However, the robustness of VC methods in presence of mismatch remains unknown. In this paper, we report a comparative analysis of different VC techniques under mismatched conditions. The extensive experiments with five different VC techniques on CMU ARCTIC corpus suggest that performance of VC methods substantially degrades in noisy conditions. We have found that bilinear frequency warping with amplitude scaling (BLFWAS) outperforms other methods in most of the noisy conditions. We further explore the suitability of different speech enhancement techniques for robust conversion. The objective evaluation results indicate that spectral subtraction and log minimum mean square error (logMMSE) based speech enhancement techniques can be used to improve the performance in specific noisy conditions.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Sound
Speech enhancement,Spectral subtraction,Image warping,Computer science,Amplitude scaling,Minimum mean square error,Speech recognition,Robustness (computer science),Bilinear interpolation
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1612.07523
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Monisankha Pal1252.41
Dipjyoti Paul2213.76
Md. Sahidullah301.01
Goutam Saha400.68