Multi-speaker articulatory trajectory formation based on speaker-independent articulatory HMMs

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1677-1690

  Hiroya, Sadao ^a   Mochida, Takemi ^a  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Articulatory HMMs; Articulatory trajectory formation; Inter speaker variability; Speaker adaptive training

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ERROR DETECTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ARTICULATORY TRAJECTORY FORMATIONS; ELECTRO-MAGNETIC ARTICULOGRAPHIC (EMA) SYSTEMS; INTER-SPEAKER VARIABILITY; SPEAKER-ADAPTIVE TRAINING;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33751404798     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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