Phonetic feature extraction for context-sensitive glottal source processing

Speech Communication

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-21

  Kane, John ^a   Aylett, Matthew ^b,c   Yanushevskaya, Irena ^a   Gobl, Christer ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CEREPROC LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expressive speech; Glottal source; Phonation type; Speech synthesis; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DISCRIMINATIVE CLASSIFIERS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMMS); GLOTTAL SOURCE; PHONATION TYPE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVMS); VOICE QUALITY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; LINGUISTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84892721755     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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