Exploring the predictability of non-unique acoustic-to-articulatory mappings

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2672-2682

  Ananthakrishnan, G ^a   Engwall, Olov ^a   Neiberg, Daniel ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acoustic to articulatory inversion; entropy of GMM (Gaussian mixture model); many to one mapping

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VECTORS; ACOUSTIC-TO-ARTICULATORY INVERSION; ACOUSTIC-TO-ARTICULATORY MAPPING; ARTICULATORY DATA; CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC ARTICULOGRAPHY; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; INVERSE MAPPING; MANY-TO-ONE-MAPPING; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATES; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; STATISTICAL TOOLS; UPPER BOUND;

ENTROPY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

MAPPING;

EID: 84867169172     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2210876     Document Type: Article

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