Application of Speech Conversion to Alaryngeal Speech Enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 97-105

  Bi, Ning ^a,b   Qi, Yingyong ^a  

^a QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear multivariate regression; Speech analysis and synthesis; Speech conversion; Speech enhancement; Vector quantization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ALARYNGEAL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; LINEAR MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION (LMR) ALGORITHMS; SPEECH CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0031104132     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.554771     Document Type: Article

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