DocumentCode
3029574
Title
On reducing the buzz in LPC synthesis
Author
Sambur, M.R. ; Rosenberg, A.E. ; Rabiner, L.R. ; McGonegal, C.A.
Author_Institution
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Volume
2
fYear
1977
fDate
28246
Firstpage
401
Lastpage
404
Abstract
A method for reducing the characteristic buzz from LPC synthetic speech is presented. The method consists of the use of an non-impulse source for exciting the LPC synthesizer during voiced sounds. One novel feature is that the temporal parameters of the source are kept in fixed proportion to the pitch period. An extensive perceptual experiment has shown that the resulting quality of the synthesis is significantly preferred over the quality of the standard LPC synthesis.
Keywords
Ear; Interpolation; Linear predictive coding; Poles and zeros; Predictive models; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; System testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on ICASSP '77.
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICASSP.1977.1170336
Filename
1170336
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