Voice Cloning for Voice Disorders: Impact of Phonetic Content
Résumé
Organic dysphonia can lead to vocal impairments. Recording patients’ impaired voice could allow them to use voice cloning systems. Voice cloning, being the process of producing speech matching a target speaker voice, given textual input and an audio sample from the speaker, can be used in such a context. However, dysphonic patients may only produce speech with specific or limited phonetic content.
Considering a complete voice cloning process, we investigate the relation between the phonetic content, the length of samples and their impact on the output quality and speaker similarity through the use of phonetically limited artificial voices.
The analysis of the speakers embedding which are used to capture voices shows an impact of the phonetic content. However, we were not able to observe those variations in the final generated speech.