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Speech Processing

This document discusses speech processing and provides definitions and examples of key concepts. It covers pitch and fundamental frequency, applications of pitch tracking, classification approaches, challenges with musical sounds, short-time speech analysis requirements, homomorphic analysis, synthesis techniques, prediction, formant estimation and tracking, voiced vs. unvoiced speech, analysis per frame, and AMDF pitch contours. The goal is to introduce fundamental concepts in speech and audio signal processing.

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Speech Processing

This document discusses speech processing and provides definitions and examples of key concepts. It covers pitch and fundamental frequency, applications of pitch tracking, classification approaches, challenges with musical sounds, short-time speech analysis requirements, homomorphic analysis, synthesis techniques, prediction, formant estimation and tracking, voiced vs. unvoiced speech, analysis per frame, and AMDF pitch contours. The goal is to introduce fundamental concepts in speech and audio signal processing.

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SPEECH PROCESSING

ByBy1.Hawal Suyog R. 2.Hajare Vinayak B. 3.Sakhawalkar Rohit R. 4.Akhil Bhan Under Guidance of Mr. M. M. Kamble

Introduction Prior Definitions


Pitch : Defined as the perceptual appreciation of the highness or the lowness of a sound It is related to the periodicity of a sound. Frequency : Physical attribute of a sound or any type other of signal. Describes the amount of times that a repeated event occur per unit of time. Fundamental Frequency : In a complex sound or signal, it is the lowest partial.

Introduction
 Application of Pitch Tracking
Score Following Musical Queries by singing or humming Acoustic feature for Human-Computer Interaction Sound-Editing Program like pitch-shifting and time-scaling operation

Introduction
 Non-Exclusive Classification
Voice ( Speech, Singing ) Instrumental Monophonic Polyphonic Time-Based Algorithm Spectral-Based Algorithm Alternative

Introduction
 Music-Specific Difficulties
Large frequency range for musical instrument Many instrumental sound have inharmonic partials Expressiveness factors ( glissando, vibrato, thrill) Fast algorithm for real-time processing Multiphonic

ShortShort-time speech analysis


y y y y y

Requirement Comparison of Human male & female voice Zero crossing detection Average Energy Average Power

Homomorphic Analysis
y

Separation of combined signals Removes multiplicative noise Cepstrum Analysis Autocorrelations

Synthesis
y

Sine Wave FM Wave Voice signal Mute Wave

Prediction

Use Of Filter

Formant estimation and tracking


y

Formant are important in applications such voice coding vocoders, some approaches to recognition and formantbased synthesis. However, tracking the formants in their dynamics in continuous speech is very difficult. Analysis for the roots of denominator polynomials (poles) in the z domain or proximity to the unit circle may be indicators of a formant. Formant tracking is difficult and unreliable.

Voiced vs. Unvoiced Speech


y

Voiced

Unvoiced
 No periodic vibration of vocal chords

 Quasi-periodic Quasi-

excitation

 Modulation

by vocal tract  Noise-like nature Noise Production of most consonants  Low Energy

 Production

of mainly vowels Energy

 High

Analysis per Frame


Cutting signal in to selected frame y Shows the FFT & LPC of the frame and residual y Shows error probabilities y Shows AMDF of a frame with its fundamental frequency
y

AMDF Pitch contours


Gives the contours of pitch with time y Only shows the dots of contour where the pitch is present other wise shows blank fields
y

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