The harmonic structure can be easily recognized in time-frequency representation of speech signals in adverse environment. The harmonicity is a measure of the completeness of a harmonic structure. This paper presents a new harmonic structure measure that extends the conventional harmonicity to a set of harmonicities. They are expressed in terms of the grid harmonicity, the temporal harmonicity, the segment-spectral harmonicity, and the segmental harmonicity. The grid harmonicity measures the completeness of individual harmonics in each frame. The grid harmonicities in a frame are summed up to form a temporal harmonicity for representing the strength of harmonicity. The segment-spectral harmonicity, computed by summing specific grid harmonicity over a segment, evaluates the integrity of individual harmonics across a segment. The segmental harmonicity evaluates the total strength of harmonic structure within a segment. This set of harmonicities is available for a systematic analysis of the harmonic structure and effective to several speech processing tasks. The applications to speech distortion analysis, robust fundamental frequency estimation, robust voicing detection, and speech enhancement are demonstrated.
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November 2006
November 01 2006
New speech harmonic structure measure and its applications to speech processing
An-Tze Yu;
An-Tze Yu
a)
Department of Computer Science,
National Chupei Senior High School
, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, No. 3, Jungyang Rd., Jubei City, Hsinchu, Taiwan 302, ROC
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Hsiao-Chuan Wang
Hsiao-Chuan Wang
b)
Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Tsing Hua University
, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 30055, ROC
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 2938–2949 (2006)
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Received:
December 06 2005
Accepted:
August 28 2006
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An-Tze Yu, Hsiao-Chuan Wang; New speech harmonic structure measure and its applications to speech processing. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 November 2006; 120 (5): 2938–2949. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2356838
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