• DocumentCode
    568093
  • Title

    Reconstruction of whisper in Chinese by modified MELP

  • Author

    Cheng Huang ; Xing Yue Tao ; Liang Tao ; Jian Zhou ; Hua Bin Wang

  • Author_Institution
    Key Lab. of Intell. Comput. & Signal Process., Anhui Univ., Hefei, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    14-17 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    349
  • Lastpage
    353
  • Abstract
    In the present paper, a method for the real-time conversion of whisper to normal phonated speech in Chinese through a multiple excited linear prediction (MELP) analysis-by-synthesis codec is discussed. In the analysis codec processing of whisper speech, parameters from unchanged MELP model are changed, such as the pitch and the formants which aims to reconstruct the target phonated speech using the synthesis codec. Subjective evaluation results show the effectiveness of the technique.
  • Keywords
    natural language processing; prediction theory; signal reconstruction; speech codecs; speech processing; speech synthesis; Chinese whisper reconstruction; modified MELP; multiple excited linear prediction analysis; normal phonated speech; real-time whisper conversion; synthesis codec; target phonated speech; Codecs; Computational modeling; Entropy; Speech; Speech coding; Speech processing; Speech recognition; MELP; five degrees tone model; whisper reconstruction;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2012 7th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0241-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCSE.2012.6295089
  • Filename
    6295089