Instantaneous pitch estimation based on empirical wavelet transform

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed specially for capturing the instantaneous pitch that may reveals some innate character of the speech. Firstly, the original signal is decomposed into several modes with empirical wavelet transform, and then the mode containing the pitch is picked out, finally the instantaneous pitch is calculated via Hilbert transform. Intensive evaluation and direct comparisons with existing method are conducted with the standard Chinese and English speech database, all showing the effectiveness of the proposed method in acquiring the instantaneous pitch.