Analysis and Synthesis of Speech Using an Adaptive Full-Band Harmonic Model

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2085-2095

  Degottex, Gilles ^a,b   Stylianou, Yannis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

harmonic model; non stationary; sinusoidal model; Voice model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE QUASI-HARMONIC MODELS; ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; HARMONIC MODEL; NONSTATIONARY; SINUSOIDAL MODEL; SINUSOIDAL PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; VOICE MODEL;

ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881041616     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2266772     Document Type: Article

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