A method to combine acoustic and morphological constraints in the speech production inverse problem

Speech Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 151-174

  Yehia, Hani ^a   Itakura, Fumitada ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Area function; Formant; Fourier cosine series; Speech production inverse problem; Vocal tract acoustics; Vocal tract morphology

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC CONSTRAINTS; FORMANTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LOG AREA FOURIER COSINE COEFFICIENTS; MORPHOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; SPEECH PRODUCTION INVERSE PROBLEM; VOCAL TRACT LOG AREA FUNCTION; VOWELS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0030121505     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6393(95)00042-9     Document Type: Article

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