Modeling the articulatory space using a hypercube codebook for acoustic-to-articulatory inversion

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 444-460

  Ouni, Slim ^a   Laprie, Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; TRAJECTORIES;

ACOUSTICS TO ARTICULATORY INVERSION; ARTICULATORY SPACE; HYPERCUBE CODEBOOK; VOCAL TRACT SHAPE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOCAL CORD;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH; PHONETICS; SPEECH; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 22144465830     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1921448     Document Type: Article

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