European Conference on Speech Technology Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 1987

Pitch Determination Based on Waveform Superposition

Climent Nadeu, E. Garcia-Melendo, J. Alsina

Dpto. Teoria de la Senal y Comunicaciones, U.P.C. Barcelona, Spain

Based on the idea of waveform superposition, three algorithms for pitch determination and voiced/unvoiced decision are developed. Although this new approach is intimately related with the autocorrelation analysis method, the obtained results show an improvement with respect to it that is more remarkable in the presence of noise.

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Bibliographic reference.  Nadeu, Climent / Garcia-Melendo, E. / Alsina, J. (1987): "Pitch determination based on waveform superposition", In ECST-1987, 1407-1410.