Benedikt Mayrhofer

LIGHTWEIGHT AND PERCEPTUALLY-GUIDED VOICE CONVERSION FOR ELECTRO-LARYNGEAL SPEECH

Electro-laryngeal (EL) speech is characterized by constant pitch, limited prosody, and mechanical noise, reducing naturalness and intelligibility. We propose a lightweight adaptation of the state-of-the-art StreamVC framework to this setting by removing pitch and energy modules and combining self-su…