Automatic Formant Tracking by a Newton‐Raphson Technique
作者:
J. P. Olive,
期刊:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
(AIP Available online 1971)
卷期:
Volume 50,
issue 2B
页码: 661-670
ISSN:0001-4966
年代: 1971
DOI:10.1121/1.1912681
出版商: Acoustical Society of America
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A wide range of speech investigation requires natural‐sounding synthetic speech whose individual acoustic features—such as pitch, formants, and duration—can be varied independently. This study describes an algorithm for obtaining such synthetic speech by automatically analyzing natural speech to obtain data for the control of a formant synthesizer. The lowest three formants of natural speech were determined by finding simultaneous solutions of the least‐square‐fit equations by means of a Newton‐Raphson technique. The data obtained from this formant analysis, together with pitch data which were also obtained automatically, were used for controlling a computer‐simulated formant synthesizer. This algorithm was tested for various sentences and speakers, and the synthesized speech was found to be of good quality.
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