On the computation of the Kullback-Leibler measure for spectral distances

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 100-103

  Veldhuis, Raymond ^a   Klabbers, Esther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concatenation cost; Kullback Leibler distance; Spectral distance measure; Speech synthesis; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH PROCESSING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

SPECTRAL DISTANCES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0037225974     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2002.805641     Document Type: Article

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