Towards flexible speech coding for speech synthesis: An LF + modulated noise vocoder

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1849-1852

  Agiomyrgiannakis, Yannis ^a   Rosec, Olivier ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Embedded speech synthesis; LF; LPC vocoder; Modulated noise; Pitch time scaling; Speech coding; Speech transformation modification; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LF; LPC VOCODER; MODULATED NOISE; PITCH/TIME SCALING; TEXT TO SPEECH;

SPEECH CODING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VOCODERS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867221878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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