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KMID : 0917520050120040053
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2005 Volume.12 No. 4 p.53 ~ p.70
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AM-FM Decomposition and Estimation of Instantaneous Frequency and Instantaneous Amplitude of Speech Signals for Natural Human-robot Interaction
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Lee He-Young
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Abstract
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A Vowel of speech signals are multicomponent signals composed of AM-FM components whose instantaneous frequency and instantaneous amplitude are time-varying. The changes of emotion states cause the variation of the instantaneous frequencies and the instantaneous amplitudes of AM-FM components. Therefore, it is important to estimate exactly the instantaneous frequencies and the instantaneous amplitudes of AM-FM components for the extraction of key information representing emotion states and changes in speech signals. In tills paper, firstly a method decomposing speech signals into AM - FM components is addressed. Secondly, the fundamental frequency of vowel sound is estimated by the simple method based on the spectrogram. The estimate of the fundamental frequency is used for decomposing speech signals into AM-FM components. Thirdly, an estimation method is suggested for separation of the instantaneous frequencies and the instantaneous amplitudes of the decomposed AM - FM components, based on Hilbert transform and the demodulation property of the extended Fourier transform. The estimates of the instantaneous frequencies and the instantaneous amplitudes can be used for modification of the spectral distribution and smooth connection of two words in the speech synthesis systems based on a corpus.
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KEYWORD
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AM-FM decomposition, Instantaneous frequency, Instantaneous amplitude, Estimation, Multi-component signals, Modification of spectral distribution, Human-robot interaction, Emotion representation, Analytic signal
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