Generating stressed speech from neutral speech using a modified CELP vocoder

Speech Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 93-110

  Bou Ghazale, Sahar E ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOCODERS;

CODE EXCITED LINEAR PREDICTION (CELP); LOMBARD EFFECT;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0030285967     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(96)00047-7     Document Type: Article

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