Formant tracking linear prediction model using HMMs and Kalman filters for noisy speech processing

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 543-561

  Yan, Qin ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^b   Zavarehei, Esfandiar ^b   Milner, Ben ^c   Darch, Jonathan ^c   White, Paul ^d   Andrianakis, Ioannis ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; KALMAN FILTERS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

LINEAR PREDICTION (LP) MODELS; PROBABILITY MODELS; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION; VITERBI DECODERS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33847659290     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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