Pitch Control in Diphone Synthesis

H. T. Bunnell, D. Yarrington and K. E. Barner

Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories
A. I. duPont Institute and The University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

The authors wish to thank Kathy Samworth for her assistance with data analysis, and Joshua Gallant for his work on the EGG based pitch tracker. This work was supported by NIDRR and by the Nemours Foundation.

This is a slightly modified version of a paper which appears in the Proceedings of the Second ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis. September 12 - 15, 1994, 127-130.

• Introduction
• Hybrid LPC Method
  • Algorithm Description
• Listening Test
  • Method
    • Stimuli
    • Procedure
    • Data Reduction and Analysis
  • Results
  • Discussion
• References