Digital Signal Processing Reference
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The inverse of the pulse duration is called pitch frequency denoted in Figure 7.7 as
f pitch ( n ). These signal generators can be accessed either in a binary manner
g ( n ) [ {0, 1}
(7 : 1)
or continuously
0 g ( n ) 1 :
(7 : 2)
For rebuilding the influence of the cavities a low-order all-pole filter with the
frequency response
s ( n )
A ( e jV , n ) ¼
s ( n )
1 P
H ( e jV , n ) ¼
(7 : 3)
N pre
1 a i ( n ) e jVi
is employed. 1 The order N pre of the all-pole model is chosen usually in the range of
10 to 20. Since the excitation signal is a spectrally flat signal, the transfer function
of this all-pole model represents the spectral envelope of the speech signal. The
parameters ˜ i ( n ) of the all-pole model can be computed by solving the so-called
Yule-Walker equation system
2
3
2
3
2
3
r ss ,0 ( n )
r ss ,1 ( n )
r ss , N pre 1 ( n )
r ss ,1 ( n )
r ss ,2 ( n )
.
r ss , N pre ( n )
a 1 ( n )
a 2 ( n )
.
a N pre ( n )
4
r ss ,1 ( n )
r ss ,0 ( n )
r ss , N pre 2 ( n )
5
4
5
4
5
¼
:
(7 : 4)
.
.
.
.
. .
r ss , N pre 1 ( n )
r ss , N pre 2 ( n )
r ss ,0 (0)
| {z }
a ( n )
| {z }
R ss ( n )
| {z }
r ss ( n )
The coefficients r ss,i ( n ) represent the short-term autocorrelation at lag i estimated
around the time index n . Finally, the gain parameter s ( n ) in (7.3) is computed as
the square root of the output power of a predictor error filter with coefficients ˜ i ( n )
t
r ss ,0 ( n ) X
N pre
1 a i ( n ) r ss , i ( n )
s ( n ) ¼
q
r ss ,0 ( n ) a T ( n ) r ss ( n ) :
¼
(7 : 5)
Due to the special character of the matrix R ss ( n ) Eqs. (7.4) and (7.5) can be solved
in an order-recursive manner by using, for example, the Levinson-Durbin recursion
1 We have used the tilde notation for the coefficients ˜ i ( n ) in order to avoid a conflict with the definitions of
standard transformations such as Fourier or z -transform. The Fourier transform is defined as
A ( e jV , n ) ¼ P i¼1 a i ( n ) e jVi . By comparing the coefficients we get a 0 ( n ) ¼ 1, a i ( n ) ¼ 2 ˜ i ( n ) for 1
i N pre , and a i ( n ) ¼ 0 else.
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