Jordan, Benjamin W. D. (2009) A touch-screen controlled 'Linear Predictive Synthesizer' for accessibility applications. [USQ Project]
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Abstract
Numerous voice compression methods are available today for communications over low bandwidth channels. Worthy of note in particular are Linear Predictive Coding (LPC), Mixed Excitation LPC (MELP), and Code Excited LPC (CELP). The channel in these coding schemes is typically a digital transmission line or radio link, such as in cellular telephone communications, but may be other media such as files on a computer hard disk.
Linear Predictive Coding is explored in some detail as a basis for creating a new speech synthesizer that does not convert text to speech (TTS), but rather uses a touch-screen Thin Film Transistor (TFT) panel as user input to create and control voice-like audio sound synthesis.
Research has been carried out to conceptually try different methods for mapping TFT touch panel input (or any 2-dimensional input) to LPC synthesis coefficient vectors
for artificial speech reproduction.
To achieve this, various LPC coefficient quantization algorithms have been explored and evaluated using Octave v.3 scripts, resulting in selection and comparison in the
final hardware and software implementation.
The hardware and software development platform used for the final implementation is the Altium Nanoboard 3000 Xilinx Edition, along with the Altium Designer EDA package. The Nanoboard 3000 was chosen as it provided a convenient FPGA
platform and all the necessary IP, IP Synthesis, and C compilers needed to prototype the design and perform further research
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| Item Type: | USQ Project |
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| Refereed: | No |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Access permanently restricted to Appendix files at author's request. |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Engineering and Surveying - Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2010 00:39 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2017 01:37 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | touch screen; Linear Predictive Coding; speech synthesizer |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 20 Language, Communication and Culture > 2004 Linguistics > 200404 Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science 09 Engineering > 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering > 090609 Signal Processing |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4704 Linguistics > 470410 Phonetics and speech science 40 ENGINEERING > 4006 Communications engineering > 400607 Signal processing |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/8514 |
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