Classification of thai tone sequences in syllable-segmented speech using the analysis-by-synthesis method

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-102

  Potisuk, Siripong ^a   Harper, Mary P ^a   Candour, Jack ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis by synthesis; Intonation; Lexical tone classification; Speech processing; Spoken thai; Tonal assimilation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANALYSIS-BY-SYNTHESIS METHOD; LEXICAL TONE CLASSIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032795155     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.736336     Document Type: Article

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