Vowel-based frequency alignment function design and recognition-based time alignment for automatic speech morphing

2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-28

  Onishi, Masato ^a   Takahashi, Toru ^b   Irino, Toshio ^a   Kawahara, Hideki ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Audio systems8Auditory system; Signal processing; Speech communication; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Vocal system

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SYSTEMS8AUDITORY SYSTEM; MORPHING; NEW DESIGN; OPEN SOURCES; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SUBJECTIVE TESTS; TEST RESULTS; TIME ALIGNMENT; TIME FREQUENCY; VOCAL SYSTEM; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

ALIGNMENT; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 67649562205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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