A mel-cepstral analysis technique restoring high frequency components from low-sampling-rate speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2494-2498

  Nakamura, Kazuhiro ^a   Hashimoto, Kei ^a   Oura, Keiichiro ^a   Nankaku, Yoshihiko ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM based speech synthesis; Integrative model; Mel cepstral analysis

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SAMPLING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CEPSTRAL ANALYSIS; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; HIGH SAMPLING RATES; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; INTEGRATIVE MODELING; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84910069658     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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