Robust generation of symbolic prosody by a neural classifier based on autoassociators

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 1285-1288

  Müller, Achim F ^a   Zimmermann, Hans Georg ^a   Neuneier, Ralph ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; ERRORS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

AUTOASSOCIATORS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; ERROR INFORMATION; NEURAL CLASSIFIERS; ROBUST GENERATION; TRAINING MATERIAL; TWO STAGE APPROACH;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AUTOASSOCIATIVE MODELS; NEURAL CLASSIFIER; SYMBOLIC PROSODY;

EID: 0033690877     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.861812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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