February 2000

On the Importance Of Formants In Pitch Shifting

Posted by Bernsee in Tutorials

1. Introduction
This page is dedicated exclusively to the topic of formant movement occuring when pitch shifting sampled sounds. It will detail the effects involved and show pictures of the effects that cause unnatural sounding pitch shifts.
1.1 What are formants?
The following graphics shows a short time fourier spectrum of a sampled sound of a female voice […]