Only an outline of the main approaches, with little technical detail. Useful as a summary of why these tasks are harder than you might think.
Taylor – Section 12.4 – Linear-Prediction Analysis
An overview of the background and maths behind linear-prediction methods for modelling the vocal tract as a filter.
Talkin: A Robust Algorithm for Pitch Tracking (RAPT)
The classic algorithm for estimating F0 from speech signals.
Kawahara et al: Restructuring speech representations…
The key paper about the STRAIGHT vocoder, which was originally intended for manipulating recorded natural speech.
Handbook of phonetic sciences – Ch 20 – Intro to Signal Processing for Speech (Sections 6-7)
Written for a non-technical audience, this gently introduces some key concepts in speech signal processing. Read sections 6-7.
Handbook of phonetic sciences – Ch 20 – Intro to Signal Processing for Speech (Sections 1-5)
Written for a non-technical audience, this gently introduces some key concepts in speech signal processing. Read sections 1-5 (up to and including ‘Fourier Analysis’).
Handbook of phonetic sciences – Ch 20 – Intro to Signal Processing for Speech
Written for a non-technical audience, this gently introduces some key concepts in speech signal processing.
This is the new version. Still under construction.