FFT BASED SINE WAVE SYNTHESIS METHOD FOR PARAMETRIC VOCODERS

A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based voice synthesis method 110, program product and vocoder. Sounds, e.g., speech and audio, are synthesized from multiple sine waves. Each sine wave component is represented by a small number of FFT coefficients 116. Amplitude 120 and phase 124 information of the components may be incorporated into these coefficients. The FFT coefficients corresponding to each of the components are summed 126 and, then, an inverse FFT is applied 128 to the sum to generate a time domain signal. An appropriate section is extracted 130 from the inverse transformed time domain signal as an approximation to the desired output. FFT based synthesis 110 may be combined with simple sine wave summation 100, using FFT based synthesis 110 for complex sounds, e.g., male voices and unvoiced speech, and sine wave summation 100 for simpler sounds, e.g., female voices.