ISCA Archive Interspeech 2015
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2015

Automatic transformation of irregular to regular voice by residual analysis and synthesis

Tamás Gábor Csapó, Géza Németh

This paper presents an automatic speech transformation method of non-ideal phonation of speech (irregular or creaky voice). The irregular-to-regular transformation is performed by analyzing and resynthesizing the residual. A recent continuous pitch estimation algorithm is used for interpolating F0 in regions of irregular voice. The linear prediction residual of irregular sections of speech is replaced by overlap-added frames from a codebook of pitch-synchronous residuals. Finally, speech is reconstructed from the residual. A listening experiment showed that by transforming natural speech samples containing irregular voice, the perceived roughness of the transformed speech is decreased.