Statistical approach to vocal tract transfer function estimation based on factor analyzed trajectory HMM

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3925-3928

  Toda, Tomoki ^a,c   Tokuda, Keiichi ^b,c  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; MAP; Speech analysis; Trajectory HMM; Vocal tract transfer function

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; FUNCTIONS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAJECTORIES;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; MAP; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY HMM; VOCAL TRACT TRANSFER FUNCTION;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 51449096059     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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