Improvement to a NAM captured whisper-to-speech system

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1465-1468

  Tran, Viet Anh ^a   Bailly, Gérard ^a   Lœvenbruck, Hélène ^a   Jutten, Christian ^a  

^a GIPSA LAB   (France)

Author keywords

Audiovisual voice conversion; Non audible murmur; Whispered speech

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION METHODS; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LONG-TERM VARIATIONS; NON-AUDIBLE MURMUR; PCA (PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS); PITCH ESTIMATION; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SPECTRAL VECTOR; SPEECH CONVERSION; SPEECH SYSTEMS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION; UNVOICED SPEECH; VISUAL INFORMATION; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICING DECISION; WHISPERED SPEECH;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867216844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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