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Data Analysis and Processing Guide

Voice morphing aims to smoothly transition one speech signal into another by preserving shared characteristics while generating a smooth transition, analogous to image morphing. The major properties of speech that need to be morphed are pitch and envelope information, which reside convolved in a speech signal. An uncomplicated cepstral analysis approach is used to extract the pitch and formant information from each signal. Necessary processing to obtain the morphed speech signal includes cross fading envelope information, dynamic time warping to match pitch features, and signal re-estimation to convert the morphed signal back to an acoustic waveform.

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Data Analysis and Processing Guide

Voice morphing aims to smoothly transition one speech signal into another by preserving shared characteristics while generating a smooth transition, analogous to image morphing. The major properties of speech that need to be morphed are pitch and envelope information, which reside convolved in a speech signal. An uncomplicated cepstral analysis approach is used to extract the pitch and formant information from each signal. Necessary processing to obtain the morphed speech signal includes cross fading envelope information, dynamic time warping to match pitch features, and signal re-estimation to convert the morphed signal back to an acoustic waveform.

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ABSTRACT

Voice morphing means the transition of one speech signal into another. Like image
morphing, speech morphing aims to preserve the shared characteristics of the starting
and final signals, while generating a smooth transition between them. Speech morphing
is analogous to image morphing. n image morphing the in-between images all show
one face smoothly changing its shape and texture until it turns into the target face. t is
this feature that a speech morph should possess. One speech signal should smoothly
change into another, keeping the shared characteristics of the starting and ending
signals but smoothly changing the other properties.
The major properties of concern as far as a speech signal is concerned are its pitch and
envelope information. These two reside in a convolved form in a speech signal. Hence
some efficient method for extracting each of these is necessary. We have adopted
an uncomplicated approach namely cepstral analysis to do the same. Pitch and formant
information in each signal is extracted using the
cepstral approach. Necessary processing to obtain the morphed speech signal include
methods like Cross fading of envelope information, Dynamic Time Warping to match the
major signal features (pitch) and Signal Re-estimation to convert the
morphed speech signal back into the acoustic waveform.

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