Speech synthesis from real time ultrasound images of the tongue

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Denby, Bruce ^a   Stone, Maureen ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION FUNCTION; AUDIO TRACKS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONICS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 4544388746     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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