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cheaptrick

Cheaptrick is "a [spectral-envelope] estimator for high-quality speech synthesis". It is used by the [world-vocoder].

Research paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167639314000697

Judging by the research paper, it performs better than two other spectral envelope estimators that they compared it to.

source code analysis

Main source code: https://github.com/mmorise/World/blob/master/src/cheaptrick.cpp

Source seems pretty readable. I think it was ported over from Matlab, but doesn't seem to be an issue.

It looks to be doing both FFT and inverse FFT. It has mention of [cepstrum].

cheaptrick