An articulatory speech-prosthesis system

2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 133-138

  Wee, Keng Hoong ^a   Turicchia, Lorenzo ^b   Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog bionic vocal tract; Articulatory speech prosthesis; Bio inspired circuits; Speech coding; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH-CONSTRAINED; BIO-INSPIRED; BIT RATES; BODY SENSOR NETWORK; CODING PARAMETERS; CODING STRATEGY; HUMAN VOCAL TRACT; SPEECH PROSTHESIS; VOCAL-TRACTS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; PROSTHETICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77955219026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2010.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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