Title :
Pitch alteration technique in a speech synthesis system
Author :
Keum-Young Jang ; Jeong-Jin Kim ; Myung-Jin Bae
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Telecommun. Eng., Soongsil Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
This paper proposes the pitch alteration method that solves the energy unbalance by the pitch interval adjustment on a speech synthesis system. The pitch alteration is applied to waveform reconstruction and PSOLA (pitch synchronous overlap and add) techniques.
Keywords :
signal reconstruction; speech synthesis; PSOLA; energy unbalance; pitch alteration method; pitch interval adjustment; pitch synchronous overlap and add; speech synthesis system; waveform reconstruction; Acoustic distortion; Multimedia systems; Postal services; Rate distortion theory; Signal processing; Signal synthesis; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2000. ICCE. 2000 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6301-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2000.854664
