Title :
A novel approach to speech signal synthesis
Author :
Ying, Jun ; Li, Gang ; Wang, Zicheng
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Eng., Zhejiang Univ. of Technol., Hangzhou
Abstract :
In this paper, a new approach to speech signal synthesis is proposed. The basic idea is to represent a speech signal as the impulse response of a pole-zero digital filter. The transfer function of the digital filter is obtained using the effective balanced model reduction (BMR) technique. Extensive simulations are done to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach for speech signal representation, which show that the synthetic speech signals are perceptual compared to the original ones.
Keywords :
digital filters; poles and zeros; signal representation; speech synthesis; transfer functions; balanced model reduction technique; impulse response; pole-zero digital filter; speech signal representation; speech signal synthesis; transfer function; Digital filters; Linear predictive coding; Pulse modulation; Reduced order systems; Signal representations; Signal synthesis; Speech coding; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Transfer functions;
Conference_Titel :
Audio, Language and Image Processing, 2008. ICALIP 2008. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1723-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1724-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICALIP.2008.4590049
