Reducing audible spectral discontinuities

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-51

  Klabbers, Esther ^a   Veldhuis, Raymond ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERPOLATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDIBLE SPECTRAL DISCONTINUITIES; CONTEXT SENSITIVE DIPHONES; SPECTRAL DISTANCE MEASURES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0035127353     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.890070     Document Type: Article

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