ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993

New frequency domain prosodic modification techniques

Eduardo R. Banga, Carmen Garcia-Mateo

In this contribution we propose a new family of algorithms for prosodic modifications in the frequency domain, based on a harmonic model and a set of voiced/unvoiced decisions for different frequency bands. Due to the flexibility and simplicity of these algorithms they are ideal for applications like text-to-speech conversion.

Keywords: Prosodic modifications, pitch harmonics, voiced/unvoiced decisions, text-to-speech systems.