Time-scale modification of audio signals with combined harmonic and wavelet representations
We propose a new time-scale modification method for high quality audio signals. Our approach strives to preserve pitch and timbre. In our method, the signal is represented as the sum of sinusoidal components and a residual (edges and noise). The decomposition is computed via a combined harmonic and wavelet representation. Time-scaling is performed on the harmonic components and residual components separately. The harmonic portion is time-scaled by demodulating each harmonic component to DC, interpolating and decimating the DC signal, and remodulating each component back to its original frequency. The residual portion is time-scaled by preserving edges and relative distances between the edges while time-scaling the stationary (noise) components between the edges.