| Presentation | 1999/8/5 An automatic pitch-marking method using a wavelet transform Masaharu Sakamoto, Takashi Saitoh, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper focuses on an automatic pitch-marking method using a wavelet transform for the speech synthesis technique known as pitch-synchronous overlap-and-add. The glottal closure instant (GCI)is appropriate as a pitch mark for manipulating the pitch waveform since it corresponds to the beginning of a pitch period. A wavelet transform with the first derivative of a smoothing function shows local maxima around the points of discontinuity of a signal. This property is suitable for detecting GCIs at which abrupt changes occur in a speech waveform. We applied a dynamic programming algorithm to obtain an optimal GCI sequence from the local peaks of the wavelet transform of a speech signal. We have evaluated the performance of our pitch-marking method by using our internal speech databases with an electroglottograph (EGG)signal |
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| Keyword(in English) | pitch marking / wavelet transform / glottal closure instant / dynamic programming |
| Paper # | SP99-55 |
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| Conference Date | 1999/8/5(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | An automatic pitch-marking method using a wavelet transform |
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| Keyword(1) | pitch marking |
| Keyword(2) | wavelet transform |
| Keyword(3) | glottal closure instant |
| Keyword(4) | dynamic programming |
| 1st Author's Name | Masaharu Sakamoto |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takashi Saitoh |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan |
| Date | 1999/8/5 |
| Paper # | SP99-55 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.99 |
| Number (no) | 255 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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