Wrapped gaussian mixture models for modeling and high-rate quantization of phase data of speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 775-786

  Agiomyrgiannakis, Yannis ^a,b   Stylianou, Yannis ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Circular statistics; Phase quantization; Sinusoidal models; Speech analysis; Speech coding; Voice over IP; Wrapped Gaussian mixture models (WGMMs)

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR STATISTICS; PHASE QUANTIZATION; SINUSOIDAL MODELS; VOICE-OVER-IP; WRAPPED GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS (WGMMS);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; MIXTURES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RANDOM VARIABLES; SCANNING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRELLIS CODES; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 65249164963     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2008229     Document Type: Article

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