MAP prediction of formant frequencies and voicing class from MFCC vectors in noise

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1556-1572

  Darch, Jonathan ^a   Milner, Ben ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DSR; Formant estimation; Formant prediction; GMM; HMM; MAP prediction

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DSR; FORMANT ESTIMATION; FORMANT PREDICTION; GMM; HMM; MAP PREDICTION;

VECTORS;

EID: 33750293417     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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