2021
High-Intelligibility Speech Synthesis for Dysarthric Speakers with LPCNet-Based TTS and CycleVAE-Based VC
Keisuke Matsubara, Takuma Okamoto, Ryoichi Takashima, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga +1
ICASSP 2021accepted
This paper presents a high-intelligibility speech synthesis method for persons with dysarthria caused by athetoid cerebral palsy. The muscular control of such speakers is unstable because of their athetoid symptoms, and their pronunciation is unclear, which makes it difficult for them to communicate…