• DocumentCode
    350809
  • Title

    Implementation of MELP vocoder using lifting wavelet transform

  • Author

    Aoki, Naofumi ; Ifukube, Tohru ; Takaya, Kunio

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Inst. for Electron. Sci., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    194
  • Abstract
    This paper describes an implementation of MELP (mixed excitation linear prediction) vocoder. Subband division required for implementing the MELP vocoder was performed by the lifting wavelet transform. A new method to generate an appropriate glottal waveform was devised. In addition, three kinds of fluctuations observed in the steady parts of voiced speech were incorporated to enhance the naturalness of synthesized speech
  • Keywords
    linear predictive coding; speech coding; speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; transform coding; vocoders; wavelet transforms; MELP vocoder; glottal waveform generation; lifting wavelet transform; mixed excitation linear prediction; subband division; synthesized speech; voice quality; voiced speech; Acoustic pulses; Degradation; Filtering; Frequency; Linear predictive coding; Signal synthesis; Speech enhancement; Speech synthesis; Vocoders; Wavelet transforms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    TENCON 99. Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Cheju Island
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5739-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TENCON.1999.818383
  • Filename
    818383