An empirical investigation of the nonuniqueness in the acoustic-to- articulatory mapping

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2300-2303

  Qin, Chao ^a   Carreira Perpiñán, Miguel Á ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic to articulatory mapping; Articulatory inversion; X ray microbeam database

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC SPEECH SIGNALS; ACOUSTIC-TO-ARTICULATORY MAPPING; ARTICULATORY DATUMS; ARTICULATORY INVERSION; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS; INVERSE MAPPINGS; NON UNIQUENESSES; VOCAL TRACT SHAPES; WISCONSIN; X-RAY MICROBEAM DATABASE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149109023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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