Title :
An optimized multirate sampling technique for the dynamic variation of vocal tract length in the Kelly-Lochbaum speech synthesis model
Author :
Wright, G.T.H. ; Owens, F.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Ulster Univ., Antrim, UK
fDate :
1/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
How vocal tract length variation may be incorporated in the Kelly-Lochbaum (1962) speech synthesis model through a dynamic variation of the system sampling rate is described. It has been determined that an eight-point four-term Blackman-Harris (1978) window is optimum for designing the FIR interpolation filter for converting from a varying to a fixed sample rate
Keywords :
acoustic signal processing; digital filters; interpolation; speech synthesis; Blackman-Harris window; FIR interpolation filter; Kelly-Lochbaum speech synthesis model; dynamic variation; optimized multirate sampling; system sampling rate; vocal tract length; Acoustic reflection; Continuous production; Finite impulse response filter; Frequency; Interpolation; Sampling methods; Signal generators; Speech synthesis; Time domain analysis; Transfer functions;
Journal_Title :
Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Transactions on
