COVAREP - A collaborative voice analysis repository for speech technologies

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 960-964

  Degottex, Gilles ^a   Kane, John ^b   Drugman, Thomas ^c   Raitio, Tuomo ^d   Scherer, Stefan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

glottal source; sinusoidal modeling; spectral envelope; Speech processing; toolkit; voice quality

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

GLOTTAL SOURCE; SINUSOIDAL MODEL; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; TOOLKIT; VOICE QUALITY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84905248179     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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