Perceptual aspects of glottal-pulse parameter variations

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 95-112

  Van Dinther, R ^a   Veldhuis, R ^b   Kohlrausch, A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Glottal pulse; LF parameters; Perceptual distance measure; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TRAJECTORIES; VECTORS;

GLOTTAL PULSE; LILJENCRANTS-FANT (LF) PARAMETERS; PERCEPTUAL ASPECTS; PERCEPTUAL DISTANCE MEASURE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 17444387783     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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