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Devices and methods for noise modulation in a universal vocoder synthesizer

  • US 9,607,610 B2
  • Filed: 02/26/2015
  • Issued: 03/28/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by a device that includes one or more processors, an input indicative of acoustic feature parameters associated with speech;

    identifying, using the input, a speech frame having an acoustic feature representation of the speech at a given time within a duration of the speech, wherein identifying the speech frame includes determining the acoustic feature parameters based on samples of the acoustic feature representation at harmonic frequencies associated with the speech frame;

    based on the speech frame being a voiced speech frame, modifying aperiodicity parameters of the speech frame to correspond to;

    a first value for first harmonic frequencies greater than a first threshold, a second value for second harmonic frequencies less than a second threshold, and one or more values between the first value and the second value for given harmonic frequencies less than the first threshold and greater than the second threshold;

    based on the modified aperiodicity parameters, determining a dispersion factor for phase parameters of the speech frame, wherein determining the dispersion factor includes modifying the phase parameters of the speech frame based on the determined dispersion factor;

    determining, for a harmonic frequency of the speech, based on the acoustic feature parameters, the modified phase parameters and the modified aperiodicity parameters, a modulated noise representation for modulating noise pertaining to one or more of an aspirate or a fricative in the speech, wherein the aspirate is associated with a characteristic of an exhalation of at least a threshold amount of breath, and wherein the fricative is associated with a characteristic of airflow between two or more vocal tract articulators; and

    providing, by the device, an audio signal indicative of a synthetic audio pronunciation of the speech based on the modulated noise representation.

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