𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

A pitch extraction method using the wavelet transform

✍ Scribed by Akira Sasou; Shogo Nakamura


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
699 KB
Volume
82
Category
Article
ISSN
1042-0967

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


One of the reasons why pitch extraction from speech has been difficult is that pitch is nonstationary and changes over a wide range. In most of the conventional methods, it is assumed that speech remains stationary in an analysis frame of fixed width. This essentially produces an extraction error. In order to remedy this point, there have been attempts to apply the wavelet transform to the pitch extraction, where the resolution can be adjusted dynamically on the timefrequency plane [5,6]. This paper proposes an implementation of pitch extraction based on discrete wavelet transform, which can execute the computation efficiently by a subband filter bank for pitch filtering. Since the subband filter bank contains internal down-sampling, aliasing in the pitch filtering is a problem. In the proposed method, aliasing is avoided by scaling of the input signal. A computer simulation is tried for the test signal and actual speech. The synthesized test signal includes the first three harmonic components, and the pitch frequency is increased exponentially so that the time variation is faster for higher frequencies. It is verified that the pitch can be extracted with an error rate of about r2% for any pitch frequency.


πŸ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES


A discrete wavelet transform (DWT)-based
✍ Guillaume Carat; RaphaΓ«l Gillard; Jacques Citerne; Joe Wiart πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 2000 πŸ› John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English βš– 116 KB πŸ‘ 1 views

A new wa¨elet-based technique to calculate radiating patterns by the FDTD method is presented. This technique has been applied to the study of a microstrip patch antenna. Results show a substantial gain both in memory storage and CPU time, while maintaining the same accuracy as the classical computa

Radar SCR improvement using a wavelet tr
✍ Akihiko Saitou; Satoshi Kouya; Susumu Miwa; Nobuyuki Kaku πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 2002 πŸ› John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English βš– 439 KB
180. Mesophase transformation in a solve
✍ J.E. Zimmer πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1982 πŸ› Elsevier Science 🌐 English βš– 160 KB

Abstracts 145 land A2401, at two stages of pyrolysis, has been solventfractionated by successive Soxhlet extractions with solvents such as hexane, cyclohexane, toluene, tetrahydrofuran, and pyridine. The fractions have been coked at room pressure and at 5OOOpsi and evaluated in terms of their mesoph