Predicting fundamental frequency from mel-frequency cepstral coefficients to enable speech reconstruction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1134-1143

  Shao, Xu ^a   Milner, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VECTORS;

DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION (DSR) SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS (MFCC);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION; FEMALE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENT; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOICE;

EID: 23744446244     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1953269     Document Type: Article

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