Syllable-based pitch encoding for low bit rate speech coding with recognition/synthesis architecture

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3449-3452

  Cernak, Milos ^a   Na, Xingyu ^a,b   Garner, Philip N ^a  

^a Idiap Reseach Institute   (Switzerland)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Pitch analysis; Speech coding; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LINGUISTICS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VOCODERS;

CODING PARAMETERS; ENCODING TECHNIQUES; LOW BIT-RATE SPEECH CODING; PITCH ANALYSIS; PITCH CONTOURS; SPEECH CODERS; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH SIGNALS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906268958     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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