2-D processing of speech

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2007-04-10

2007-04-10

Armstrong, Angela (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

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C704S228000

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ABSTRACT:
Acoustic signals are analyzed by two-dimensional (2-D) processing of the one-dimensional (1-D) speech signal in the time-frequency plane. The short-space 2-D Fourier transform of a frequency-related representation (e.g., spectrogram) of the signal is obtained. The 2-D transformation maps harmonically-related signal components to a concentrated entity in the new 2-D plane (compressed frequency-related representation). The series of operations to produce the compressed frequency-related representation is referred to as the “grating compression transform” (GCT), consistent with sine-wave grating patterns in the frequency-related representation reduced to smeared impulses. The GCT provides for speech pitch estimation. The operations may, for example, determine pitch estimates of voiced speech or provide noise filtering or speaker separation in a multiple speaker acoustic signal.

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