Speech processing device, speech processing method, and computer program product
A speech processing device of an embodiment includes a spectrum parameter calculation unit, a phase spectrum calculation unit, a group delay spectrum calculation unit, a band group delay parameter calculation unit, and a band group delay compensation parameter calculation unit. The spectrum parameter calculation unit calculates a spectrum parameter. The phase spectrum calculation unit calculates a first phase spectrum. The group delay spectrum calculation unit calculates a group delay spectrum from the first phase spectrum based on a frequency component of the first phase spectrum. The band group delay parameter calculation unit calculates a band group delay parameter in a predetermined frequency band from a group delay spectrum. The band group delay compensation parameter calculation unit calculates a band group delay compensation parameter to compensate a difference between a second phase spectrum reconstructed from the band group delay parameter and the first phase spectrum.
1. A speech processing device comprising:
a storage unit configured to store a phase shift band pulse signal obtained by band division of a phase-shifted pulse signal;
a delay time calculation unit configured to calculate a delay time of the phase shift band pulse signal based on a band group delay parameter in a predetermined frequency band of a group delay spectrum calculated from a phase spectrum of a speech frame at each time;
a phase calculation unit configured to calculate a phase at a boundary frequency based on the band group delay parameter and a band group delay compensation parameter to compensate phase information generated from the band group delay parameter;
a selection unit configured to select a corresponding phase shift band pulse signal from the storage unit based on the calculated phase of each band;
a overlap-add unit configured to generate a phase-shifted excitation signal by delaying the selected phase shift band pulse signals according to the delay time to be overlap-added on each other; and
a vocal tract filter configured to apply a vocal tract filter corresponding to a spectrum parameter calculated for each of the speech frames of input speech and output a speech waveform.
2. The speech processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the storage unit
stores a phase shift band pulse signal which is a band pulse signal with each phase quantized in a predetermined phase of the principal value of the phase,
the selection unit
calculates, in each frequency band of the band group delay parameter, a phase at a start frequency of the band based on the band group delay parameter and the band group delay compensation parameter, calculates a delay amount which is an integer converted from the band group delay parameter, calculates a group delay from the delay amount, calculates a phase value at a frequency origin of a straight line passing through the phase at the start frequency with the group delay calculated from the delay amount as a gradient, and selects a phase shift band pulse signal corresponding to a principal value of the calculated phase value, and
the overlap-add unit
overlap-adds a phase shift band pulse signal delayed by the delay amount.
3. The speech processing device according to claim 1 , further comprising
a band noise signal storage unit configured to store band noise signals divided in bands,
the vocal tract filter
applying the vocal tract filter that corresponds to the spectrum parameter to a mixed excitation signal obtained by mixing a noise signal of each band generated from the band noise signal and the phase shift band pulse signal based on an intensity of each band of a band noise intensity parameter representing a ratio of a noise component in the predetermined frequency band.