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High Quality Time-Domain Pitch Shifting Using PSOLA and Transient Preservation

An enhanced pitch shifting system is presented which uses the Pitch Synchronous Overlap Add (PSOLA) technique and a transient detection for processing of monophonic speech or instrument signals. The PSOLA algorithm requires the pitch information and the pitch marks for the signal segmentation in the analysis stage. The pitch is acquired using a well established pitch detector. A new robust pitch mark positioning algorithm is presented which achieves high quality results and allows the positioning of the pitch marks in a frame-based manner to enable real-time application. The quality of the pitch shifter is furthermore enhanced by extracting the transient components before the PSOLA and reapplying them at the synthesis stage to eliminate repetitions of the transients.

Authors: von dem Knesebeck, Adrian; Ziraksaz, Pooya; Zölzer, Udo
Affiliation: Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany
AES Convention:129 (November 2010) Paper Number:8202 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Audio Processing

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