HMM-based stressed speech modeling with application to improved synthesis and recognition of isolated speech under stress

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 201-216

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

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rockwell Semiconductor Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Lombard effect; Robust speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Speech under stress

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

STRESSED SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032069798     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.668815     Document Type: Article

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