Generation and Evaluation of Self-hearing Voice with Voice Conversion Technique

Abstract

We propose a method for generating a self-hearing voice by applying the voice conversion technique to a recorded voice. We sometimes feel unnatural when we hear our own recorded voice. One of the reasons is the difference in the acoustic transmission path. Our proposed method imitates voice changes caused by the acoustic path with the voice conversion technique. In the experiments, two different models were used to generate a self-hearing voice. The generated self-hearing voices were subjectively evaluated whether they were suitable as self-hearing voices. The results addressed that self-hearing voice can be generated by the voice conversion technique.