Simulation of human speech production applied to the study and synthesis of European Portuguese

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1435-14448

  Teixeira, António J S ^a,b,d,e,f   Martinez, Roberto ^a   Silva, Luís Nuno ^a,d,g   Jesus, Luis M T ^{a,b,d,e,f,h,i}   Principe, Jose C ^c,j,k,l   Vaz, Francisco A C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers   (Portugal)

^e International Speech Communication Association   (Portugal)

^f International Phonetic Association   (Portugal)

^g Research and Development Department   (Portugal)

^h ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

ⁱ Associação Portuguesa de Linguistica   (Venezuela)

^j IEEE   (United States)

^k International Neural Network Society   (United States)

^l CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

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Author keywords

Articulatory synthesis; European Portuguese; Fricatives; Nasal vowels; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATORY SYNTHESIS; FRICATIVES; NASAL VOWELS; SPEECH PRODUCTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 27844573290     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.1435     Document Type: Article

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