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Legát, M. and Tihelka, D. and Matoušek, J. : Pitch Marks at Peaks or Valleys? . Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Text, Speech and Dialogue, vol. 4629, p. 502-507, 2007.

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Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of speech waveform polarity. As the polarity of speech waveform can influence the performance of pitch marking algorithms, the simple method for the speech signal polarity determination is presented in this paper. We call this problem peak/valley decision making, i.e. making of decision whether pitch marks should be placed at peaks (local maxima) or at valleys (local minima) of a speech waveform. Besides, the proposed method can be utilized to check the polarity consistence of a speech corpus, which is important for the concatenation of speech units.

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Title: Pitch Marks at Peaks or Valleys?
Author: Legát, M. ; Tihelka, D. ; Matoušek, J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 1 Jan 2007
Year: 2007
Type of publication: Papers in journals
Book title: Text, Speech and Dialogue
Title of journal or book: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Číslo vydání: 4629
Page: 502 - 507
ISBN: 0302-9743
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Keywords

speech synthesis, pitch marks, automatic pitch marking, glottal closure instants, corpus recording, speech signal polarity

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{LegatM_2007_PitchMarksatPeaks,
 author = {Leg\'{a}t, M. and Tihelka, D. and Matou\v{s}ek, J.},
 title = {Pitch Marks at Peaks or Valleys?},
 year = {2007},
 journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
 volume = {4629},
 pages = {502-507},
 booktitle = {Text, Speech and Dialogue},
 ISBN = {0302-9743},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/LegatM_2007_PitchMarksatPeaks},
}