51. Time-frequency synthesis of noisy sounds with narrow spectral components
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Charles Verron, Damian Marelli, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Mitsuko Aramaki, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle [Australia] (UoN), Institut de neurosciences cognitives de la méditerranée - UMR 6193 (INCM), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille] (LMA ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM), Orange Labs [Lannion], France Télécom, CIFRE Orange France-Télécom, S2M-LMA-CNRS, ANR senSons, contrat CIFRE France-Télécom, S2M-LMA, ANR-05-JCJC-0033,senSons,Vers le sens des sons(2005), University of Newcastle [Callaghan, Australia] (UoN), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Signal processing ,Acoustics and Ultrasonics ,Noise measurement ,Audio analysis ,synthesis ,Computer science ,Speech recognition ,Additive synthesis ,Fast Fourier transform ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,020207 software engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Noise ,Colors of noise ,Frequency domain ,[INFO.INFO-SD]Computer Science [cs]/Sound [cs.SD] ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Time domain ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Algorithm - Abstract
International audience; The inverse FFT method was proposed to alleviate the computational complexity of the additive sound synthesis method in real time applications, and consists in synthesizing overlapping blocks of samples in the frequency domain. However, its application is limited by its inherent trade-off between time and frequency resolution. In this paper we propose an alternative to the inverse FFT method for synthesizing colored noise. The proposed approach uses subband signal processing to generate time-frequency noise with an auto-correlation function such that the noise obtained after converting it to time domain has the desired power spectral density. We show that the inverse FFT method can be interpreted as a particular case of the proposed method, and therefore, the latter offers some extra design flexibility. Exploiting this property, we present experimental results showing that the proposed method can offer a better trade-off between time and frequency resolution, at the expense of some extra computations.
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- 2010
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