Pitch Marking Based on an Adaptable Filter and a Peak-Valley Estimation Method

Jau-Hung Chen ； Yung-An Kao

《中文計算語言學期刊》 6卷2期 (2001/08) Pp. 31-42

https://doi.org/10.30019/IJCLCLP.200108.0003

並列摘要

In a text-to-speech (TTS) conversion system based on the time-domain pitch-synchronous overlap-add (TD-PSOLA) method, accurate estimation of pitch periods and pitch marks is necessary for pitch modification to assure optimal quality of synthetic speech. In general, there are two major tasks in pitch marking: pitch detection and location determination. In this paper, an adaptable filter, which serves as a bandpass filter, is proposed for use in pitch detection to transform voiced speech into a sine-like wave. The pass band of the adaptable filter can be adapted based on the fundamental frequency. Based on the sine-like wave, a peak-valley decision method is proposed to determine the appropriate parts (positive part and negative part) of voiced speech for use in pitch mark estimation. In each pitch period, two possible peaks/valleys are searched, and dynamic programming is performed to obtain pitch marks. Experimental results indicate that our proposed method performs very well if correct pitch information is estimated.

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