High Auality Time-scale Modification of Speech using a Peak Alignment Overlap-add Alogroithm (PAOLA)

Authors

David Dorran, Technological University DublinFollow
Robert Lawlor, Technological University DublinFollow
Eugene Coyle, Technological University DublinFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

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This item is available under a Creative Commons License for non-commercial use only

Disciplines

2. ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Publication Details

In EEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol.1, pp.1-700-1-7003, Hong Kong, 2003

Abstract

The duration of a speech passage can be altered using audio time-scale modification techniques. Time-scale modification can be achieved in the time domain by segmenting the input signal into overlapping frames and recombining the frames with an overlap differing from the analysis overlap. We present a time-scale modification algorithm that uses a simple peak alignment technique to synchronise overlapping synthesis frames. The peak alignment overlap-add (Paola) algorithm also takes advantage of waveform properties to ensure a high quality output for the minimum number of iterations. The new algorithm produces a time-scaled output of approximately equal quality to that of an adaptive implementation of the commercially popular synchonised overlap-add (SOLA) algorithm, but offers a computational saving ranging from a factor of 15 (for a time-scale factor of 0.5) to 170 (for a time-scale factor of 1.1)

Recommended Citation

Dorran, D., Lawlor, R. & Coyle, E. (2003) High quality time-scale modification of speech using a peak alignment overlap-add alogroithm (PAOLA). EEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol.1, pp.1-700-1-7003, Hong Kong, 2003.