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Filling the Gaps Between the Grains of Down Pitching PSOLA or "Getting the Frog Out of PSOLA"

Authors: von Dem Knesebeck, Adrian; Zölzer, Udo

AES Convention 131 · Paper 8504 · October 2011

Abstract

An improvement regarding the down pitching quality of the Pitch Synchronous Overlap Add (PSOLA) technique is presented.

The behavior of the common PSOLA algorithm when decreasing the input signal's pitch by one octave or even less is analyzed.

A new grain processing algorithm is proposed, which modifies the synthesis grains depending on the synthesis period.

The time domain and frequency domain properties of the proposed algorithm are discussed.

The presented algorithm improves the perceived quality of the PSOLA algorithm when down-pitching while preserving the low complexity.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 131
AES Convention
131
Paper number
8504
Publication date
October 6, 2011
Session subject
Posters: Production and Analysis of Musical Sounds
Affiliation
Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper