Articulatory inversion and synthesis: Towards articulatory-based modification of speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7952-7956

  Aryal, Sandesh ^a   Gutierrez Osuna, Ricardo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

articulatory inversion; articulatory synthesis; Maeda parameters; speech modification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOMAINS; ARTICULATORY INVERSION; ARTICULATORY SYNTHESIS; CEPSTRAL; INVERSION MODELS; MAEDA PARAMETERS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH;

EID: 84890528210     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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