Reducing audible spectral discontinuities.

A common problem in diphone synthesis is discussed, viz., the occurrence of audible discontinuities at diphone boundaries. Informal observations show that spectral mismatch is the most likely the clause of this phenomenon. We first set out to find an objective spectral measure for discontinuity. To...

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Published in:	IEEE Transactions on speech and audio processing 9, 1 (2001).
Main Author:	Klabbers, E.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Audible spectral discontinuities reduction. Consonant contexts clustering. Context-sensitive diphones. Diphone boundaries. Diphone database. Diphone synthesis. Listening experiment. Objective spectral measure. Spectral distance measures. Spectral mismatch. Vowels.