Multipitch tracking with continuous correlation feature and hybrid DBNS/HMM model

Abstract

This paper proposed a new approach used for tracking multi-pith within one mixture speech signal. In this method, we employed a novel continuous correlation feature for calculating pitch model. This feature not only represents the harmonicity but also includes the information of spectral continuity, and hence improving the accuracy of the multi-pitch estimate. A DBNs and HMM hybrid model was further utilized to construct pitch models for determining pitch states and search for the best pitch state sequence. The new approach has been evaluated on mixture speech data and the results demonstrated its efficiency.