Estimating speech spectra for copy synthesis by linear prediction and by hand

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2173-2178

  Remez, Robert E ^a   Dubowski, Kathryn R ^a   Davids, Morgana L ^a   Thomas, Emily F ^a   Paddu, Nina U ^a   Grossman, Yael S ^a   Moskalenko, Marina ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR PRONES; LINEAR PREDICTION; LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES; PHONEMIC VARIATIONS; SINE-WAVE; SPEECH SPECTRA; SYNTHESIS PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; FORECASTING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ESTIMATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 82255196655     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3631667     Document Type: Article

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