A formant frequency modification algorithm dealing with the pole interaction

Electronics and Communications in Japan, Part III: Fundamental Electronic Science (English translation of Denshi Tsushin Gakkai Ronbunshi)

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 46-55

  Mizuno, Hideyuki ^a,b   Abe, Masanobu ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Intel Tech Corporation

Author keywords

Formant frequency; Fundamental frequency; Spectral intensity; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FORMANT FREQUENCY; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; POLE INTERACTION; SPECTRAL INTENSITY;

SPEECH;

EID: 0029752309     PISSN: 10420967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecjc.4430790105     Document Type: Article

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