| Presentation | 2002/1/17 Improvement of Phoneme Identifiability by Fluctuation of Fundamental Frequency Daisuke NAGAHATA, Masuzo YANAGIDA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | When fundamental frequency of a vowel fluctuates, apexes of harmonic components fluctuate synchronously along the spectral envelope. So the spectral envelope can be more clearly indicated, and hence vowel identification is expected to be easier, in case the fundamental frequency fluctuates. This report experimentally confirms that the fluctuations contribute to vowel identification, through listening test employing pulse excited synthetic vowels. The results show that sinusoidal fluctuation of fundamental frequency improves vowel identifiability more for higher fundamental frequency than for lower fundamental frequency. Shown is the possibility that the sinusoidal fluctuation has saturation depth beyond which vowel identifiability cannot be improved anymore. |
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| Keyword(in English) | phoneme identifiability / fundamental frequency jitter / formant frequency / singing voice / synthetic vowel |
| Paper # | 2001-SP-118 |
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| Committee | SP |
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| Conference Date | 2002/1/17(1days) |
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| Registration To | Speech (SP) |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Improvement of Phoneme Identifiability by Fluctuation of Fundamental Frequency |
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| Keyword(1) | phoneme identifiability |
| Keyword(2) | fundamental frequency jitter |
| Keyword(3) | formant frequency |
| Keyword(4) | singing voice |
| Keyword(5) | synthetic vowel |
| 1st Author's Name | Daisuke NAGAHATA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Masuzo YANAGIDA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University |
| Date | 2002/1/17 |
| Paper # | 2001-SP-118 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.101 |
| Number (no) | 603 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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