Voice source waveform analysis and synthesis using principal component analysis and Gaussian mixture modelling

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 108-111

  Gudnason, Jon ^a   Thomas, Mark R P ^a   Naylor, Patrick A ^a   Ellis, Dan P W ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Closed phase analysis; GMM; Inverse filtering; PCA; Voice source

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS/SYNTHESIS; BIT RATES; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; HIGH QUALITY; PHASE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION; VOCAL-TRACTS; VOICE SOURCES; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM MODELING;

MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; MIXTURES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 70450162429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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