Title :
A speech speed control using Fourier composite approach
Author :
Saito, Hiroto ; Nakamura, Shogo ; Yoneyama, Masahide
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Denki Univ., Chiba, Japan
Abstract :
A speech speed control techniques are used in the various fields such as language training and audio instruments and so on. To realize the speech speed control, there is an easy way that changes a playback speed of a tape-recorder. However, the original speech quality is severely degraded by this method. Currently popular speech speed control method is to change the voice part duration of a speech signal while a pitch period remains. In this paper, we would like to propose a novel approach to change the speech speed due to altering the duration of output of band-pass components.
Keywords :
band-pass filters; discrete Fourier transforms; speech processing; speech synthesis; Fourier composite approach; audio instrument; band-pass component; language training; pitch period; playback speed; speech quality; speech signal; speech speed control; tape-recorder; voice part duration; Band pass filters; Channel bank filters; Degradation; Filter bank; Frequency conversion; Low pass filters; Natural languages; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Velocity control;
Conference_Titel :
System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications, 2003. Proceedings. The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1944-X
DOI :
10.1109/IWSOC.2003.1213025
