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    This document presents an overview of voice morphing technology. It discusses that voice morphing is a technique to modify a source speaker's voice to sound like a target speaker. It describes the need for voice morphing in applications like text-to-speech systems and for special effects. Technically, it involves extracting spectral and pitch information from both voices and using algorithms like linear predictive coding and dynamic time warping to align and combine the voices. While the technology has limitations and risks, it has potential uses in entertainment, military deception, and altering identities.

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    This document presents an overview of voice morphing technology. It discusses that voice morphing is a technique to modify a source speaker's voice to sound like a target speaker. It describes the need for voice morphing in applications like text-to-speech systems and for special effects. Technically, it involves extracting spectral and pitch information from both voices and using algorithms like linear predictive coding and dynamic time warping to align and combine the voices. While the technology has limitations and risks, it has potential uses in entertainment, military deception, and altering identities.

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    This document presents an overview of voice morphing technology. It discusses that voice morphing is a technique to modify a source speaker's voice to sound like a target speaker. It describes the need for voice morphing in applications like text-to-speech systems and for special effects. Technically, it involves extracting spectral and pitch information from both voices and using algorithms like linear predictive coding and dynamic time warping to align and combine the voices. While the technology has limitations and risks, it has potential uses in entertainment, military deception, and altering identities.

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    Voice morphing

    Presented
    By
    H.Mohammed.Sabir
    09AT1A0461

    Supervised
    By
    Shreedhar Sir
    SEMINAR OUTLINES

    What It is?
    Need of Voice Morphing
    Description the Morphing.
    Technical details of Morphing.
    Application areas.
    What is Voice Morphing ??

     Voice morphing is a technique for modifying a (source)


    speaker's speech to sound as if it were spoken by a
    different (target) speaker.

     In Simpler terms it is being able to change the speech of


    one speaker to that of another speaker.

     Technology developed at the Los Alamos National


    Laboratory in New Mexico, USA by George Papcun

     Applications for Voice Morphing range from recreational


    ones to security ones.
    What it actually performs ?
     It is a technique to modify a source speaker's
    speech to sound as if it was spoken by a target
    speaker.
     Voice morphing enables speech patterns to be
    cloned
     And an accurate copy of a person's voice can
    be made that can wishes to say, anything in the
    voice of someone else.
    Need of voice morphing

     Text To Speech (TTS)


     In public speech systems
     For special effects ( just like video or image morphing is
    done ).
     To diminish Ethnical barriers.
    How to Morph Voice ??

     We need to effectively change the pitch from that of a male


    speaker to that of a female speaker. If we reminisce the
    excitation signal has information about the speaker.

     We find the LPC coefficients for the Source and Target Signals
    and using these coefficients we are going to interpolate
    between the two Signals.

     We get the New LPC (linear predictive coding) coefficients


    using the formula

    new lpc coeff = [const*(lpc source) + (1-const)(lpc


    target)]

     0 <= const <= 1

    …
    How to Morph Speech ?? (contd…)

     The pitch of a female speaker will be close to twice that of


    the male speaker. In our example the pitch of the male
    speaker is 141Hz and that of the female speaker is 210Hz.

     So we need to develop some time stretching algorithm so


    that we can implement pitch shifting. We obtain the residue
    of the source signal and stretch it according to the value of
    the const. The const indicates what is the position of morphed
    signal in between the source and target.

     For example if const = 0.2 then the morphed signal will be


    closer in pitch to the source signal and a value of 0.8 for const
    will result in a pitch that is closer to the target signal.
    How do we shift the Pitch ??
     We break the residue signal into small windows and introduce fade in
    and fade out for each block. We recombine everything to form the pitch
    shifted signal. Based on the alpha we can time stretch the residue
    according to our requirements.

    How do we Morph finally ??

    • We now have the pitch shifted residue signal and the new
    LPC coefficients. We should resample the pitch shifted
    signal so that it is played at a faster rate. [Remember
    when we pitch shift then the residue will last longer]. If
    we inverse filter the resampled pitch shifted residue then
    we can effect morphing.
    Block Diagram
    Time Domain Plots of Source and Target featuring the Pitch
    Matching and Warping

     DTW(Dynamic Time Warping)

    - Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is used to


    find the best match between the pitch of
    the two sounds.
    Signal Re-Estimation

     Loss during Signal re-estimation

    -Due to signals being transformation into the


    cepstral domain, a magnitude function is
    used. This results in a loss of phase
    information in the representation of the
    data.
    Limitations
     
    Lots of normalizing problems.
    Some applications require extensive sound libraries.
    Different languages require different phonetics.
    It is very seldom complete.
    Advantages

     Allows speech model to be duplicated and an exact


    copy of a person’s voice.

     Powerful combat zone weapon.


    Disadvantages

     Use to pull out the useful information.

     It hides the actual identity of the user.


    Conclusion
     The approach we have adopted separates the sounds into two
    forms:

    - Spectral envelope information


    - Pitch and voicing information.
     Dynamic Time Warping
    - Aligns the sounds with respect to their pitches.
     Signal re-estimation algorithm.
    - Frames are converted back into a time domain
    waveform.
    Application Areas
     Fake telephone conversations as evidence in courts of
    law.

     Powerful battlefield weapon.

    - Provide
    fake orders to the enemy's troops,
    appearing to come from their own
    commanders.
    Future Scope
     Extending the functionality of tool.
    - Create a powerful and flexible morphing
    tool.

     Increased user interaction.


    - Graphical User Interface could be
    designed and integrated to make the
    package more ‘user-friendly’.
    BIBLIOGRAPHY:
    • Ye, H. and S. Young (2003). "Perceptually Weighted Linear
    Transformations for Voice Conversion". Eurospeech 2003,
    Geneva. 
    • Ye, H. and S. Young (2004). "High Quality Voice Morphing".
    Int Conference Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing,
    Montreal, Canada. 
    • High quality Voice Morphing Hui Yeand Steve Young.
    • Quality-enhanced Voice Morphing
    Thank you!!!
    Questions??

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