Abstract
For speech synthesis applications a formant description of the speech signal
has a number of advantages over oUter parametrizatiolls. The analysis of formant
frequencies and bandwidths from the LPC coefficients has two drawbacks:
sometimes the number of formants detected is smaller than is needed for the
synthesizer alld sometimes due to numerical instability, the analysis fails completely.
A method is described to first derive the formant frequencies by means
of the Split Levinson Algorithm and second, to find optimal bandwidth values
from a table.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 34-40 |
| Journal | IPO Annual Progress Report |
| Volume | 21 |
| Publication status | Published - 1986 |