Formant tracking using context-dependent phonemic information

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 741-750

  Lee, Minkyu ^a   Van Santen, Jan ^b,e   Möbius, Bernd ^c   Olive, Joseph ^d  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY   (United States)

^e Center for Spoken Language Understanding   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Coarticulation; Dynamic programming; Formant tracking; Speech analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; COARTICULATION; FORMANT TRACKING;

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 27644433406     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.851904     Document Type: Article

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