Fractal interpolation for the modification of pulse source signal in PARCOR synthesizer

Author

Aoki, Naofumi ; Ifukube, Tohru

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. for Electron. Sci., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

650

Abstract

It is considered that the buzz voice quality of synthesized speech, which is one of the major problems of the PARCOR synthesizer, is caused by rapid and large discontinuities of pulse train source signals. This paper focuses on the characteristics of the discontinuities in source signals which are derived from sustained vowels using PARCOR inverse filtering. Wavelet analysis indicates that the characteristics of the discontinuities in these source signals are different from those of pulse train. Based on this result, a new technique for the modification of the pulse train is proposed

Keywords

filtering theory; fractals; interpolation; speech processing; speech synthesis; wavelet transforms; PARCOR synthesizer; buzz voice quality; discontinuities; fractal interpolation; inverse filtering; pulse train source signals; sustained vowels; synthesized speech; wavelet analysis; Degradation; Filtering; Fractals; Interpolation; Resonance light scattering; Signal analysis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Wavelet analysis; Wavelet transforms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Proceedings, 1998. ICSP '98. 1998 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4325-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOSP.1998.770295

Filename

770295