Title :
A New Method for Speech Synthesis and Transformation Based on an ARX-LF Source-Filter Decomposition and HNM Modeling
Author :
Vincent, Didier ; Rosec, Olivier ; Chonavel, Thierry
Author_Institution :
Div. of R&D, France Telecom, Lannion, France
Abstract :
In this paper a new method for speech synthesis is proposed. It relies on a source-filter decomposition of the speech signal by means of an ARX-LF model. This model allows the representation of the glottal signal as the sum of an LF waveform and a residual signal. The residual information is then analyzed by HNM. This signal representation enables high quality speech modification such as pitch, duration or even voice quality transformation. Experiments performed on a real speech database show the relevance of the proposed method as compared to other existing approaches.
Keywords :
filtering theory; speech processing; speech synthesis; waveform analysis; ARX-LF source-filter decomposition; HNM modeling; LF waveform; glottal signal representation; harmonic plus noise models; high quality speech modification; speech database; speech synthesis; voice quality transformation; Costs; Frequency estimation; Shape; Signal representations; Signal synthesis; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Telecommunications; Tellurium; Speech synthesis; speech analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0727-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366965
