Estimation of stability and accuracy of inverse problem solution for the vocal tract

Speech Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-74

  Sorokin, Victor N ^a   Leonov, Alexander S ^b   Trushkin, Alexander V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

VOCAL TRACTS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0033881415     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00031-X     Document Type: Article

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