Speech inversion: Benefits of tract variables over pellet trajectories

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5188-5191

  Mitra, Vikramjit ^a   Nam, Hosung ^b   Espy Wilson, Carol Y ^a   Saltzman, Elliot ^b,c   Goldstein, Louis ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks; Non uniqueness; Speech inversion; Tract variable time functions; Vocal tract constriction variables

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SPEECH; NOISY SPEECH; NONUNIQUENESS; PELLET TRAJECTORIES; SPEECH INVERSION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TIME FUNCTION; VOCAL-TRACTS; WORD RECOGNITION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PELLETIZING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TRAJECTORIES; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80051617129     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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