Paper Title
Voice Transformation Techniques
Abstract
Voice transformation is one of the applications in speech processing which involves modification of speech
signal of source speaker to a target speaker. This paper describes new techniques for generating speaker-dependent pitch
contours for particular short sentences. Here speech signal of source speaker is Neutral speech and speech signal of target
speaker is Angry speech. We have proposed 2 transformation algorithms for emotion conversion. The proposed algorithms
starts with pitch tracking for both reference and target speakers. And then modifies reference speaker’s pitch according to
target speaker’s pitch by using different techniques proposed in the algorithms. In both the algorithms, statistics are used to
form a mapping function from a reference speaker’s pitch frequency to the appropriate value for a second speaker.