Speech synthesis using damped sinusoids

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 639-650

  Hillenbrand, James M ^a   Houde, Robert A ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Spectral peaks; Speech perception; Speech synthesis; Vocoder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PHONETICS; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0036693801     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2002/051)     Document Type: Article

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