In Voice Conversion (VC), the speech of a source speaker is modified to resemble that of a
particular target speaker. Currently, standard VC approaches use Gaussian mixture model …

This paper describes a new algorithm for automatically detecting creak in speech signals.
Detection is made by utilising two new acoustic parameters which are designed to …

Which spectral cues underlie the perceptual processing of smiles in speech? Here, the
question was addressed using reverse-correlation in the case of the isolated vowel [a] …

Research in affective computing and cognitive science has shown the importance of
emotional facial and vocal expressions during human-computer and human-human …

Recently developed speech technology platforms, such as statistical speech synthesis and
voice transformation systems, facilitate the modification of voice characteristics. To fully …

Achieving a blended timbre between two instruments is a common aim of orchestration. It
relates to the auditory fusion of simultaneous sounds and can be linked to several acoustic …

This study addresses the problem of inverting a voice production model to retrieve, for a
given recording, a representation of the sound source which is generated at the glottis level …

This thesis aimed at conducting research on the synthesis and expressive transformations of
the singing voice, towards the development of a high-quality synthesizer that can generate a …

In this paper, we present an extension of a novel continuous residual-based vocoder for
statistical parametric speech synthesis. Previous work has shown the advantages of adding …

Singing voice is specific in music: a vocal performance conveys both music (melody/pitch)
and lyrics (text/phoneme) content. This paper aims at exploiting the advantages of melody …