Nonlinear methods for speech analysis and synthesis

Eurasip Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 103-140

  McLaughlin, Steve ^a   Maragos, Petros ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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