Speak Like a Professional: Increasing Speech Intelligibility by Mimicking Professional Announcer Voice with Voice Conversion
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2022

In most of practical scenarios, the announcement system must deliver speech messages in a noisy environment, in which the background noise cannot be cancelled out. The local noise reduces speech intelligibility and increases listening effort of the listener, hence hamper the effectiveness of announcement system. There has been reported that voices of professional announcers are clearer and more comprehensive than that of non-expert speakers in noisy environment. This finding suggests that the sp