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Spectral Modeling Synthesis or simply SMS is an Acousic modeling approach for speech and other signals.

SMS considers sounds as a combination of harmonic content and noise content. Harmonic components are identified based on peaks in the frequency spectrum of the signal, normally as found by the short-time Fourier transform. The signal that remains following removal of the spectral components, sometimes referred to as the residual, is then modeled as white noise passed through a time-varying filter. The output of the model, then, are the frequencies and levels of the detected harmonic components and the coefficients of the time-varying filter.

Intuitively, the model can be applied to many types of audio signals. Speech signals, for example, include slowly-changing harmonic sounds caused by vibration of the vocal cords plus wideband, noise-like sounds caused by the lips and mouth. Musical instruments also produce sounds containing both harmonic componenents and percussive, noise-like sounds when the notes are struck or changed.

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