This article presents a tutorial information about STRAIGHT and TANDEM-STRAIGHT, a widely used speech modification tool and its successor as well as their application for speech morphing. They share the same concept that periodic excitation found in voiced sounds is an efficient mechanism for transmitting underlying smooth time-frequency representation. They also based on perceptual equivalence of two sets of independent Gaussian random signals. These made it possible to discard input phase information intentionally and enabled flexible manipulation of parameters.
Index Terms: speech synthesis, spectral analysis, vocoder, morphing, periodicity
Cite as: Kawahara, H. (2010) Exploration of the other aspect of vocoder revisited: A-Z STRAIGHT, TANDEM-STRAIGHT and morphing. Proc. 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 7), 32-37
@inproceedings{kawahara10_ssw,
author={Hideki Kawahara},
title={{Exploration of the other aspect of vocoder revisited: A-Z STRAIGHT, TANDEM-STRAIGHT and morphing}},
year=2010,
booktitle={Proc. 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 7)},
pages={32--37}
}