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Estimation of Pitch Targets from Speech Signals by Joint Regularized Optimization

Birkholz, P; Schmager, P; Xu, Y; (2018) Estimation of Pitch Targets from Speech Signals by Joint Regularized Optimization. In: 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). (pp. pp. 2075-2079). IEEE: Rome, Italy. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel method to estimate the pitch target parameters of the target approximation model (TAM). The TAM allows the compact representation of natural pitch contours on a solid theoretical basis and can be used as an intonation model for text-to-speech synthesis. In contrast to previous approaches, the method proposed here estimates the parameters of all targets jointly, uses 5th-order (instead of 3rdorder) linear systems to model the target approximation process, and uses regularization to avoid unnatural pitch targets. The effect of these features on the modeling error and the target parameter distributions are shown. The proposed method has been made available as the open-source software tool TargetOptimizer.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Estimation of Pitch Targets from Speech Signals by Joint Regularized Optimization
Event: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
Location: Rome, ITALY
Dates: 03 - 07 August 2018
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2018.8552945
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.23919/EUSIPCO.2018.8552945
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Estimation, Optimization, Tools, Europe, Signal processing, Predictive models, Software
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10071664
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