Clean speech reconstruction from MFCC vectors and fundamental frequency using an integrated front-end

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 697-715

  Milner, Ben ^a   Shao, Xu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory model; Distributed speech recognition; Fundamental frequency estimation; Sinusoidal model; Source filter model; Speech reconstruction

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

AUDITORY MODEL; DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SINUSOIDAL MODEL; SOURCE-FILTER MODEL; SPEECH RECONSTRUCTION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33646236798     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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