Analysis by synthesis of pathological voices using the Klatt synthesizer

Speech Communication

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 343-368

  Bangayan, Philbert ^a   Long, Christopher ^a,c   Alwan, Abeer A ^a   Kreiman, Jody ^b   Gerratt, Bruce R ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis by synthesis; Pathological voices; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLES AND ZEROS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

KLATT FORMANT SYNTHESIZER;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031220379     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(97)00032-0     Document Type: Article

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