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Analysis of Pitch and Duration in Speech Synthesis using PSOLA
| Communications on Applied Electronics |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 4 - Number 4 |
| Year of Publication: 2016 |
| Authors: Kavita Waghmare, Sangramsing Kayte, Bharti Gawali |
10.5120/cae2016652061
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Kavita Waghmare, Sangramsing Kayte, Bharti Gawali . Analysis of Pitch and Duration in Speech Synthesis using PSOLA. Communications on Applied Electronics. 4, 4 ( February 2016), 10-18. DOI=10.5120/cae2016652061
Abstract
The speech synthesis system is an artificial production of speech with the help of speech synthesizers. It can be achieved using various techniques. During synthesis the smoothing of concatenating points is an important aspect to be studied. This paper attempts to find the effect of pitch-marking process using Time Domain-Pitch Synchronous Overlap and Add (TD-PSOLA) method. The database consists of 60 sentences containing various phones, syllables, phrases which provide prosodic effects in male and female voices. The analysis shows that the pitch –marking process affects the quality of speech in the synthesis process which soothes at concatenation point.
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