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Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis
June 14-16, 2004 |
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Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis
June 14-16, 2004 |
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This paper introduces a novel articulatory-acoustic mapping in which detailed spectral envelopes are estimated based on the cepstrum, inclusive of the high-quefrency elements which are discarded in conventional speech synthesis to eliminate the pitch component of speech. For this estimation, the method deals with the harmonics of multiple voiced-speech spectra so that several sets of harmonics can be obtained at various pitch frequencies to form a spectral envelope. The experimental result shows that the method estimates spectral envelopes with the highest accuracy when the cepstral order is 48-64, which suggests that the higher order coeffcients are required to represent detailed envelopes reflecting the real vocal-tract responses.
Bibliographic reference. Shiga, Yoshinori / King, Simon (2004): "Accurate spectral envelope estimation for articulation-to-speech synthesis", In SSW5-2004, 19-24.