Le traitement du signal vocal voice signal processing

The speech processing studies have advanced rapidly in recent years spurred on by great progresses in thevlsi technologies and in the digitalization of the networks. This paper offers an overview of the most attractive techniques which have focused the recent researchs and developments in speech coding, recognition and synthesis areas. For speech compression, the emphasis is put on a family of techniques named code-excited linear prediction (celp) which dominates current studies for rates in the range of 4 to 16 kbit/s. In terms of speech recognition, particular emphasis is placed on the following three elements which are essential in order to increase the robustness of the systems : telephone line adaptation, rejection of parasite noise and out-of-vocabulary words, and keyword spotting. In terms of text-to-speech synthesis, thepsola (pitch synchronous overlap and add) technique is outlined herein. This technique gives rise to a new generation of synthesis systems which produce speech with very natural timbre. The analysis of current tendencies for each area allows to suggest attractive directions for future research.