Measuring pitch and formant frequencies for a speech understanding system

D. W. Tufts; S. E. Levinson; R. Rao

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1976.1169986

Measuring pitch and formant frequencies for a speech understanding system

D. W. Tufts
, S. E. Levinson
, R. Rao

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We present new techniques for the measurement of pitch period and formant frequencies. Individual pitch periods are estimated by finding local maxima in the power spectrum averaged over a frequency band that includes a formant. A spectral analysis is then performed for each pitch period over a data interval that is of shorter duration than the estimated pitch period. The pitch synchronous spectral analysis followed by post detection smoothing - preferably carried out over both time and frequency - leads to a spectrogram from which formant trajectories can be estimated by simple algorithms.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	1169986
Pages (from-to)	314-317
Number of pages	4
Journal	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume	1976-April
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1976.1169986
State	Published - 1976
Externally published	Yes
Event	1976 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 1976 - Philadelphia, United States Duration: Apr 12 1976 → Apr 14 1976

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