• DocumentCode
    1843655
  • Title

    Simplified aperiodicity representation for high-quality speech manipulation systems

  • Author

    Kawahara, H. ; Morise, Masanori

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Syst. Eng., Wakayama Univ., Wakayama, Japan
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    21-25 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    579
  • Lastpage
    584
  • Abstract
    A simple model for generating aperiodic components in synthetic speech is introduced by modifying lower frequency representation for improving voice quality of resynthesized or morphed speech. The new representation is simple enough to arrow intuitive manipulation of this quality relating attribute. The model represents aperiodic component using a sigmoidal function and employs frequency axis warping in the lower frequency region. It also introduced temporal envelope shapers for aperiodic components.
  • Keywords
    speech processing; speech synthesis; aperiodic component generation; aperiodic components; arrow intuitive manipulation; frequency axis; frequency region; high-quality speech manipulation systems; lower frequency representation; morphed speech; quality relating attribute; sigmoidal function; simplified aperiodicity representation; speech resynthesis; temporal envelope shapers; voice quality; periodicity; source filter model; speech modifications; wide-band noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signal Processing (ICSP), 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • ISSN
    2164-5221
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2196-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICoSP.2012.6491555
  • Filename
    6491555