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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2019
National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, TW;
Tay-Jyi Lin, Chiayi County, TW;
Ching-Hau Sung, Taipei, TW;
Che-Chia Pai, Taipei, TW;
Ching-Wei Yeh, Chia-Yi, TW;
NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY, Chia-yi, TW;
Abstract
A system for improving dysarthria speech intelligibility and method thereof, are provided. In the system, user only needs to provides a set of paired corpus including a reference corpus and a patient corpus, and a speech disordering module can automatically generate a new corpus completely synchronous with the reference corpus, and the new corpus can be used as a training corpus for training a dysarthria voice conversion model. The present invention does not need to use a conventional corpus alignment technology or a manual manner to perform pre-processing on the training corpus, so that manpower cost and time cost can be reduced, and synchronization of the training corpus can be ensured, thereby improving both training and conversion qualities of the voice conversion model.