Estimation of Articulatory Movements From Speech Acoustics Using an HMM-Based Speech Production Model

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-185

  Hiroya, Sadao ^a   Honda, Masaaki ^a,b  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Articulatory HMM; Articulatory to acoustic mapping; HMM based speech production model; Speech inversion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR FILTERING; PROBABILITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICULATORY HMM; ARTICULATORY-TO-ACOUSTIC MAPPING; HMM-BASED SPEECH PRODUCTION MODEL; SPEECH INVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 2142659020     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.822636     Document Type: Article

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