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From: sharon@phoneme.shs.uiuc.edu (Sharon Morrison)
Subject: Re: Question on Klatt synth
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 20:58:00 GMT
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In article <1993Feb22.091141.8102@news.unige.ch> nnguyen@fapse.unige.ch  
(NGUYEN Noel) writes:
> 
> I have a question about the Klatt synthesizer available from  
svr-ftp.cam.eng.ac.uk.
> Does someone know why we have to use these fancy f0 values (>1000) to  
get a
> speech-like sound?
> 
The numbers for f0 are really f0 in Hz *10 (so you can get 123.9 Hz) -  
this (I was told) is to allow smoother contours.  Rumor has it that if  
only whole Hz values are used, listeners can hear the pitch changes as  
discrete pitch changes.
