Simultaneous estimation of vocal tract and voice source parameters based on an ARX model

Wen Ding, Hideki Kasuya, Shuichi Adachi

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Abstract

A novel adaptive pitch-synchronous analysis method is proposed to estimate simultaneously vocal tract (formant/antiformant) and voice source parameters from speech waveforms. We use the parametric Rosenberg-Klatt (RK) model to generate a glottal waveform and an autoregressive-exogenous (ARX) model to represent voiced speech production process. The Kalman filter algorithm is used to estimate the formant/antiformant parameters from the coefficients of the ARX model, and the simulated annealing method is employed as a nonlinear optimization approach to estimate the voice source parameters. The two approaches work together in a system identification procedure to find the best set of the parameters of both the models. The new method has been compared using synthetic speech with some other approaches in terms of accuracy of estimated parameter values and has been proved to be superior. We also show that the proposed method can estimate accurately the parameters from natural speech sounds. A major application of the analysis method lies in a concatenative formant synthesizer which allows us to make flexible control of voice quality of synthetic speech.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)738-743
Number of pages6
JournalIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
VolumeE78-D
Issue number6
Publication statusPublished - 1995 Jun
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

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