Dynamic assignment of Gaussian components in modelling speech spectra

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 7-19

  Zolfaghari, Parham ^a   Kato, Hiroko ^a   Minami, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakamura, Atsushi ^a   Katagiri, Shigeru ^a   Patterson, Roy ^b  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaussian spectral model; ML MoG algorithm; Parametrisation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; PARAMETRISATION SCHEME; SPEECH SPECTRA;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33846336071     PISSN: 13875485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11265-006-9768-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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