TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1 .INTRODUCTION

1-2

2. AN INTROSPECTION OF THE MORPHING PROCESS

2-4

3. MORPHING PROCESS: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS

5-15

3.1 Acoustics of speech production

3.2 Preprocessing

3.2.1 Signal Acquisition

3.2.2 Windowing

3.3 Morphing

8-19

3.3.1 Matching and Warping: Background theory

3.3.2 Dynamic Time Warping

10-11

3.3.3 The DTW Algorithm

11-15

4. MORPHING STAGE

15-19

4.1 Combination of the envelope information

15-16

4.2 Combination of the pitch information residual

17-18

4.3 Combination of the Pitch peak information

19

5. SUMMARIZED BLOCK DIAGRAM

20-21

6. FUTURE SCOPE

22-23

7. CONCLUSION

23-24

8. REFERENCES

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