The Ocean Low Latency Audio Pitch Shifting Algorithm

This page illustrates the Ocean audio pitch shifting algorithm. This algorithm, working with the STFT (but unrelated to the phase vocoder) has not been published. It's particularity is to be very resistant to reduction of the FFT size. Hence it allows very low latencies to be achieved with only minor degradations in term of quality.

Test 1 (Highest quality settings)
Original version Improved phase vocoder Ocean algorithm SOLA
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Test 2 (With latency constrained to be below 12ms)
Original version Improved phase vocoder Ocean algorithm SOLA
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Sources

The excerpts are taken from the following musics:
Music 1: The Chariots of Fire, by Vangelis, in Odyssey: The Definitive Collection
Music 2: La Danse Macabre, by Saint Saens, in Synthétiseurs, les plus grand thèmes classiques, vol. 5, adaptation: Ed. Starink
Music 3: Cleanin' Out My Closet, by Eminem, in The Eminem Show
Music 4: The Caves of Skops (Track 41), by Ubisoft, in Rayman 1