A very low bit rate speech coder using HMM-based speech recognition/synthesis techniques

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 609-612

  Tokuda, Keiichi ^a   Masuko, Takashi ^b   Hiroi, Jun ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^b   Kitamura, Tadashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT VECTOR; GENERATION TECHNIQUES; LOG SPECTRUMS; PHONEME RECOGNITION; SPEECH CODERS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; VERY LOW BIT RATE;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 84892164904     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.675338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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