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Pitch Determination of Speech Signals

Algorithms and Devices

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Information Sciences (SSINF, volume 3)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. Introduction

    • Wolfgang Hess
    Pages 1-7
  3. The Human Voice Source

    • Wolfgang Hess
    Pages 38-62
  4. Time-Domain Pitch Determination

    • Wolfgang Hess
    Pages 152-301
  5. Short-Term Analysis Pitch Determination

    • Wolfgang Hess
    Pages 343-470
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 550-700

About this book

Pitch (i.e., fundamental frequency FO and fundamental period TO) occupies a key position in the acoustic speech signal. The prosodic information of an utterance is predominantly determined by this parameter. The ear is more sensitive to changes of fundamental frequency than to changes of other speech signal parameters by an order of magnitude. The quality of vocoded speech is essentially influenced by the quality and faultlessness of the pitch measure­ ment. Hence the importance of this parameter necessitates using good and reliable measurement methods. At first glance the task looks simple: one just has to detect the funda­ mental frequency or period of a quasi-periodic signal. For a number of reasons, however, the task of pitch determination has to be counted among the most difficult problems in speech analysis. 1) In principle, speech is a nonstationary process; the momentary position of the vocal tract may change abruptly at any time. This leads to drastic variations in the temporal structure of the signal, even between subsequent pitch periods, and assuming a quasi-periodic signal is often far from realistic. 2) Due to the flexibility of the human vocal tract and the wide variety of voices, there exist a multitude of possible temporal structures. Narrow-band formants at low harmonics (especially at the second or third harmonic) are an additional source of difficulty. 3) For an arbitrary speech signal uttered by an unknown speaker, the fundamental frequency can vary over a range of almost four octaves (50 to 800 Hz).

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lehrstuhl für Datenverarbeitung im Institut für Informationstechnik, Technische Universität München, München 2, Germany

    Wolfgang Hess

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pitch Determination of Speech Signals

  • Book Subtitle: Algorithms and Devices

  • Authors: Wolfgang Hess

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Information Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81926-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-81928-5Published: 16 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-81926-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0720-678X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 700

  • Topics: Acoustics

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