Kalman tracking linear predictor for vowel intelligibility enhancement on european portuguese hmm based speech synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4734-4737

  Coelho, Luis ^a   Braga, Daniela ^b   Garcia Mateo, Carmen ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kalman filtering; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; KALMAN FILTERS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DISCRETE KALMAN FILTERS; ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; FRAME-BASED; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INTELLIGIBILITY ENHANCEMENTS; KALMAN TRACKING; KALMAN-FILTERING; LINEAR PREDICTORS; TIME AND FREQUENCIES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 78049384620     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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