Abstract: This PhD dissertation, written by Daniel Erro and supervised by Asunción Moreno, was defended on June 16th 2008 at UPC. The committee members were Antonio Bonafonte (UPC), Helenca Duxans (TID), Inma Hernáez (EHU), Eduardo Rodríguez-Banga (UVIGO), and Xavier Serra (UPF). Qualification: "sobresaliente cum laude".
Index Terms: voice transformation and conversion, speech synthesis, harmonic plus stochastic model.