Glove-TalkII - A neural-network interface which maps gestures to parallel formant speech synthesizer controls

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 977-984

  Fels, S Sidney ^a   Hinton, Geoffrey E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

PARALLEL FORMANT SPEECH SYNTHESIZER;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0031233256     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.623199     Document Type: Article

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