Synthesizing speech from electromyography using voice transformation techniques

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 652-655

  Toth, Arthur R ^a   Wand, Michael ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Silent speech; Speech synthesis; Voice transformation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION POTENTIAL; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BACKGROUND NOISE; EMG SIGNAL; HUMAN LISTENERS; NON-AUDIBLE MURMUR; SILENT SPEECH; SPEECH INTERFACE; SPEECH OUTPUT; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; TRANSFORMATION TECHNIQUES;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; REMELTING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450186044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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