A New EGG System Design and Speech Analysis for Quantitative Analysis of Human Glottal Vibration Patterns

성문진동 패턴의 정량적인 해석을 위한 새로운 시스템 설계와 음성분석

  • Published : 1999.08.01

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to develop an improved pitch extraction method that can be used in a variety of speech applications such as high-puality compression and vocoding, and recognition and synthesis of speech. To do so, we develop a new electroglottograph (EGG) measurement system that is based on the four modulation-demodulation type spot electrodes for detecting the EGG signals. Then, the glottal closure instant(GCI) is determined from the EGG signals on a real-time basis. We can obtain the pitch contour using the information on the GCI. It turns out that the new pitch contour algorithm (PCA) operates more reliably as compared to the conventional speech-only-based algorithm. In addition, we study the speech source models and glottal vibratory patterns for Koreans by measuring and analyzing the diversified vibration patterns of the vocal from the EGG signals.

본 논문에서는 고음질 음성부호화 및 압축, 음성인식 및 합성등의 성능개선에 있어서 중요한 파라메터인 피치정보를 실시간으로 검출하기 위해 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 변복조 스폿(spot) 전극을 적용한 새로운 EGG(Electroglottograph) 측정 시스템을 개발하여 이용한 안정된 피치검출 알고리즘을 연구하였다. 구체적으로 EGG 신호에 의한 성문 닫힘시점을 실시간으로 결정하여 EGG 기반의 피치궤적 알고리즘을 개발하였고, 음성신호만의 피치궤적 추적기와 성능비교를 수행하여 우월한 성능을 가짐을 보였다. 또한, EGG 신호를 이용한 음성분석을 수행하여 한국인에 있어서 성문의 다양한 진동신호 패턴의 측정 및 분석을 통해 한국인 음원의 모델과 성문신호 패턴에 대한 정량적인 해석을 하였다.

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