Ok, David. So, no need for waveform visualization, anyway. And the spectrograph bar in the Synthesizer should be really useful, but it doesn't work for me. I'll search about that "cepstral" analysis thing and other stuff related to voice recognition.
Thanks for the clarifications, Felipe Castro. 2011/3/4 David Hill <[email protected]> > Hi again, Felipe, > > In your last, you wrote: > > Yes, one or two repetitive cycles should be enough, to compare with real > speech. Though it would be useful only for the vowels, and for refinements, > optimization, etc, in order to approach specific voices. > My idea is to "mimic" someone's voices, in the future. I could have, for > example, Maddona singing in Esperanto? Hehehe... > > > In fact a comparison of the speech waveform is not very helpful in > imitating a particular speaker's voice. This is because it is the spectral > content, pitch pulse shape and changing frequency, and the spectral > dynamics, that are the main determinants of similarity. The speech waveform > can vary significantly without changing the perception of similarity because > the speech waveform also depends very much on the *phase* relations of the > harmonic components and the human ear is not really sensitive to phase. > > Warm regards. > > david > > -------- > >
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