Magnitude-oriented approaches dominate the voice analysis front-ends of most current technologies addressing, e.g., speaker identification, speech coding/compression, and voice reconstruction and re-synthesis. A popular technique is all-pole vocal tract modeling. The phase response of all-pole models is known to be non-linear and highly dependent on the magnitude frequency response. In this paper we use a shift-invariant phase-related feature that is estimated from signal harmonics in order to study the impact of all-pole models on the phase structure of voiced sounds. We relate that impact to the phase structure that is found in natural voiced sounds to conclude on the physiological validity of the group delay of all-pole vocal tract modeling. Our findings emphasize that harmonic phase models are idiosyncratic, and this is important in speaker identification and in fostering the quality and naturalness of synthetic and reconstructed speech.
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