Normalization of articulatory data through Procrustes transformations and analysis-by-synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3027-3031

  Felps, Daniel ^a   Aryal, Sandesh ^a   Gutierrez Osuna, Ricardo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

analysis by synthesis; articulatory synthesis; speaker normalization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

ACOUSTIC SIMILARITIES; ANALYSIS BY SYNTHESIS; ARTICULATORY DATA; ARTICULATORY SYNTHESIS; MODEL PARAMETERS; NORMALIZATION METHODS; PROCRUSTES TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84905265670     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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