Speech spectral envelope estimation through explicit control of peak evolution in time

10th International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications, ISSPA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 209-212

  Godoy, Elizabeth ^a   Rosecl, Olivier ^a   Chonavel, Thierry ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Spectral envelope; Speech analysis; Voice conversion

Indexed keywords

CEPSTRUM; FLEXIBLE MODEL; HUMAN SPEECH; NATURAL SPEECH; NEW APPROACHES; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPECTRAL MODIFICATIONS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TIME VARYING; VOICE CONVERSION;

ESTIMATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 78650273608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPA.2010.5605540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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