Jung, E. and Schwarzbacher, A. and Lawlor, Bob (2002) Implementation of real-time AMDF pitch-detection for voice gender normalisation. In: 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2002. DSP 2002. IEEE, pp. 827-830. ISBN 0780375033

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Abstract

Traditionally the interest in voice gender conversion was of a more theoretical nature rather than founded in real-life applications. However, with the increase in mobile communication and the resulting limitation in transmission bandwidth new approaches to minimising data rates have to be developed. Here voice gender normalisation (VGN) presents a novel method of achieving higher compression rates by using the VGN algorithm to remove all gender specific components of a speech signal and thus leaving only the information content to be transmitted. A second application for VGN is in the field of speech controlled systems, where current speech recognition algorithms have to deal with the voice characteristics of a speaker as well as the information content. Here again the use of VGN can remove the speakers voice characteristics leaving only the pure information. Therefore, such a system would be capable of achieving much higher recognition rates while being independent of the speaker. This paper presents the theory of a gender removal system based on VGN and furthermore, outlines an efficient real-time hardware implementation for use in portable communications equipment.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	real-time AMDF pitch-detection; voice gender normalisation (VGN); VGN algorithm;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering
Item ID:	8788
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDSP.2002.1028218
Depositing User:	Robert Lawlor
Date Deposited:	11 Sep 2017 15:46
Publisher:	IEEE
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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