Speech synthesis using glottal closure instants determined from adaptively-thresholded wavelet transforms

Abstract

A speech synthesis system making use of a pitch-synchronous waveform overlap method to realize stable speech synthesis processing in which pitch shaking is negligible. The present invention is characterized in that glottal closure instants are used as reference points (pitch marks) for overlapping. Since the glottal closure instants can be extracted stably and accurately by using dyadic Wavelet conversion, speech in which pitch shaking is negligible and rumbling sounds are minimized can be synthesized stably. In addition, more flexible waveform separation becomes possible by setting the reference point for overlapping and the reference point for waveform separation to different positions. The extraction of glottal closure instants is performed by searching the local peaks of the dyadic Wavelet conversion, but preferably a threshold value for searching for the local peaks of the dyadic Wavelet conversion is adaptively controlled each time dyadic Wavelet conversion is obtained.

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