An acoustically oriented vocal-tract model

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E79-D, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1198-1208

  Yehia, Hani C ^a,b   Takeda, Kazuya ^a   Itakura, Fumitada ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Articulatory to acoustic inverse problem; Factor analysis; Formant frequencies; Independent component analysis; Singular value decomposition; Vocal tract log area function

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FREQUENCIES; FUNCTIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARTICULATORY TO ACOUSTIC INVERSE PROBLEMS; COORDINATE SYSTEMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FORMANT FREQUENCIES; HUMAN VOCAL TRACT; LOG AREA FUNCTIONS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; VOCAL TRACK LOG AREA FUNCTION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0030218668     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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