A Comparative Study between Pitch Detection Techniques on Reverberant Speech Signals

Hassan, Shaimaa E. A. Aziz; El-Fishawy, Adel S.; Abd El-Samie, Fathi I.; Sharshar, A.M.; El-Abyad, Gaber El-Sayed Mohamed; Dessouky, Moawd I.; El-Rabaie, El-Sayed M.

doi:10.21608/mjeer.2020.69195

A Comparative Study between Pitch Detection Techniques on Reverberant Speech Signals

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Communications and Electronics Department Faculty of Electronic Engineering,Manoufia University: Menouf, Egypt

² Communications and Electronics Department Faculty of Electronic Engineering,Manoufia University: Menouf, Egypt,

10.21608/mjeer.2020.69195

Abstract

Reverberation is one of the effects that occur regularly in closed room due to multiple reflections. This paper investigates the result of reverberation on both male and female speech signals. This effect is reflected in pitch frequency of speech signals. This parameter is important as it is usually used for speaker identification. Hence, several methods for pitch frequency estimation are investigated and compared on clear and reverberant male and female speech signals to select the one that is not affected so much by the reverberation effect.

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