A Phoneme Harmonic Generator

Authors

  • Gražina Korvel Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
  • Virginija Šimonytė Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences
  • Vytautas Slivinskas Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.45.1.7657

Keywords:

speech synthesis, phoneme, harmonic generator

Abstract

In the paper we present a new speech harmonic generator that retains the mutual harmonic amplitude ratio. This ratio is important for retaining the speaker timbre in the synthesized signal. The fourth order quasipolynomial model is chosen as the harmonic model in time domain. A new amplitude and phase determining algorithm is derived and its stepwise form presented. A harmonic generator is excited by dynamic pseudo-periodic input sequences. An example of the synthesized harmonic of the vowel “a” and its comparison with the true sound signal harmonic is given.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.45.1.7657

Author Biographies

Gražina Korvel, Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

Recognition Processes Department, researcher

Virginija Šimonytė, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences

Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Technologies, assoc. professor

Vytautas Slivinskas, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences

Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Technologies, professor

Published

2016-03-21

Issue

Vol. 45 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Articles

License

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