Improving the performance of HMM-based very low bit rate speech coding

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 800-803

  Hoshiya, Takahiro ^a   Sako, Shinji ^a   Zen, Heiga ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a   Masuko, Takashi ^b   Kobayashi, Takao ^b   Kitamura, Tadashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH QUALITY;

BIT ERROR RATE; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 0141702206     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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