The utility of a model describing pitch profiles in speech signals is of fundamental importance in many application areas and especially in natural-sounding text-to-speech system. Fujisaki-model [1] has shown considerable accuracy on many languages, despite its simplicity. The inverse problem, i.e. the extraction of the input parameters which generated an observed pitch contour, that could be of great interest in the field of automatic extraction of prosodic parameters from a given speech signal, is a much harder task. This paper suggests a method for input parameters estimation based on two steps: an initial guessing algorithm based on relative extremes, and a refinement procedure based on a gradient optimization algorithm. Preliminary results of analysis/synthesis of pitch contours show excellent performance of the proposed method.
Cite as: Pierluigi, S.R., Palmieri, F., Cutugno, F. (2002) A method for automatic extraction of fujisaki-model parameters. Proc. Speech Prosody 2002, 615-618
@inproceedings{pierluigi02_speechprosody,
author={Salvo Rossi Pierluigi and Francesco Palmieri and Francesco Cutugno},
title={{A method for automatic extraction of fujisaki-model parameters}},
year=2002,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2002},
pages={615--618}
}