Extraction of vocal-tract system characteristics from speech signals

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 313-327

  Yegnanarayana, B ^a   Veldhuis, Raymond N J ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Formant analysis; Speech analysis

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

VOCAL TRACT SYSTEMS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032121729     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.701359     Document Type: Article

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