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A Study on Extraction of Vocal Tract Characteristic After Canceling the Vocal Cord Property Using the Line Spectrum Pairs  

민소연 (숭실대학교 전자공학과)
장경아 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
배명진 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
Abstract
The most common form of pre-emphasis is y(n)=s(n)-As(n-1), where A typically lies between 0.9 and 1.0 in voiced signal. Also, this value reflects the degree of pre-emphasis and equals R(1)/R(0) in conventional method. This paper proposes a new flattening method to compensate the weaked high frequency components that occur by vocal cord characteristic. We used interval information of LSP to estimate formant frequency, After obtaining the value of slope and inverse slope using linear interpolation among formant frequency, flattening process is followed. Experimental results show that the proposed method flattened the weaked high frequency components effectively. That is, we could improve the flattening characteristics by using interval information of LSP as flattening factor at the process that compensates weaked high frequency components.
Keywords
Line spectrum pairs; Vocal cord characteristics; Vocal tract characteristics; Flattening; Auto-correlation method;
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