TD-PSOLA …the hard way

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Time-Domain Pitch Synchronous Overlap and Add (TD-PSOLA) can modify the fundamental frequency and duration of speech signals, without affecting the segment identity – that is, without changing the formants. Normally, it’s an automatic algorithm, but here we do it the hard way – by hand!

If you want to follow-along, you will need Audacity and these materials (a zip file containing a set of Audacity projects for the various stages of the algorithm).

In the example in the video, I increased F0, but the side effect was to make the duration shorter. Try it yourself, but this time make versions of the word with

  1. increased F0, but the same duration as the original
  2. longer duration, and the same F0 as the original