• DocumentCode
    2961499
  • Title

    Time warping of audio signals

  • Author

    Goldenstein, Siome ; Gomes, Jonas

  • Author_Institution
    VAST Lab, Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    52
  • Lastpage
    57
  • Abstract
    Describes a technique to obtain a time dilation or contraction of an audio signal. Different computer graphics applications can take advantage of this technique. In real-time networked virtual reality applications, such as teleconferences or games, the audio might be transmitted independently from the rest of the data. These different signals arrive asynchronously and need to be somehow resynchronized on-the-fly. In animation, it can help to automatically fit and merge pre-recorded sound samples to special timed events. It also makes it easier to accomplish special effects, like lip-sync for dubbing or changing the voice of an animated character. Our technique tries to eliminate distortions by the replication of the original signal frequencies. Malvar wavelets are used to avoid clicking between segment transitions
  • Keywords
    audio signal processing; computer animation; multimedia computing; real-time systems; speech processing; synchronisation; time-frequency analysis; virtual reality; wavelet transforms; Malvar wavelets; animated characters; animation; asynchronously arriving signals; audio signal time warping; audio transformation; audio-video synchronization; clicking; computer graphics applications; distortion elimination; dubbing; dynamical time warping; games; independently transmitted audio; lip synchronization; local cosine transform; pre-recorded sound sample fitting; real-time networked virtual reality applications; segment transitions; signal frequency replication; signal resynchronization; special effects; speech recognition; teleconferences; time contraction; time dilation; time-frequency manipulation; timed events; voice changing; Wavelet transforms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Graphics International, 1999. Proceedings
  • Conference_Location
    Canmore, Alta.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0185-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CGI.1999.777905
  • Filename
    777905