Overlap-add methods for time-scaling of speech

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  • Werner Verhelst
چکیده

In this tutorial on time scaling we follow one particular line of thought towards computationally efficient high quality methods. We favor time scaling based on time-frequency representations over model based approaches, and proceed to review an iterative phase reconstruction method for time-scaled magnitude spectrograms. The search for a good initial phase estimate leads us to consider synchronized overlap-add methods which are further optimized to eventually arrive at WSOLA, a technique based on a waveform similarity criterion. Dans cet exposé sur la modification de la structure temporelle du signal de parole, nous opterons pour l’utilisation des représentations temps-fréquence du signal, plutôt que pour des représentations par modèles. Nous examinerons une méthode itérative permettant de reconstruire une fonction de phase pour spectrogrammes d’ amplitude modifiés. La recherche d’une bonne condition initiale pour démarrer l’iteration nous ammènera aux méthodes de recouvrementaddition synchronisées et notamment à WSOLA, une technique basée sur un critère de ressemblance entre formes d’ondes. Nr. of pages: 23 + 2 title pages Nr. of figures: 7

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Speech Communication

دوره 30  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000