• DocumentCode
    2908140
  • Title

    Algorithm for the calculus of virtual time instants used in prosodic modifications

  • Author

    Ciobanu, Amelia ; Negrescu, Cristian ; Stanomir, Dumitru

  • Author_Institution
    Telecommun. Dept., Politeh. Univ. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    15-16 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    315
  • Lastpage
    318
  • Abstract
    The topic addressed by this paper is related to a very specific operation in prosodic modifications, the calculus of the virtual time instants, for speech models based on a pitch synchronous analysis/synthesis. We propose and describe in detail a straightforward algorithm for the calculus of these moments. Also we present the results we obtained with the proposed algorithm, which show that the pitch synchronism is kept, without altering the quality of the time/pitch scaled signal.
  • Keywords
    speech processing; speech synthesis; pitch synchronous analysis; pitch synchronous synthesis; pitch-scaled signal; prosodic modifications; speech models; time-scaled signal; virtual time instant calculus algorithm; Algorithm design and analysis; Calculus; Coherence; Harmonic analysis; Signal processing algorithms; Speech; Speech processing; pitch-synchronous analysis/synthesis system; prosodic modifications; virtual time instants;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronics and Telecommunications (ISETC), 2012 10th International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Timisoara
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1177-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISETC.2012.6408112
  • Filename
    6408112