On a study on PSOLA coding technique based on the measurement of formant similarity

포만트 유사도 측정에 의한 PSOLA 음성 부호화에 관한 연구

The major objectives of speech coding include high compression ratio for transmission in the band limited channel, high synthesized speech quality in terms of the intelligibility and the naturalness and fast processing speed. In general, speech coding methods are classified into the following three categories: the wavelform coding, the source coding and the hybird coding. In this paper, we proposed a new waveform coding method using PSOLA(pitch-synchronous overlap add) technique. First, we fixed one basic waveform per pitch and measured the formant similarity between basic and neighbor waveform. Second, if the similairy satisfied threshold values, we compress the neighbor waveform per pitch and then store or transmit. When the comparession is about 45%, we obtained about 4 in MOS.