Phonological vocoding using artificial neural networks

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 4844-4848

  Cernak, Milos ^a   Potard, Blaise ^a   Garner, Philip N ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

low bit rate speech coding; Parametric vocoding; phonology

Indexed keywords

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VOCODERS;

LOW BIT-RATE SPEECH CODING; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER; PARAMETRIC VOCODING; PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES; PHONOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SCALAR QUANTIZATION; SIGNAL PARAMETERS;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84946076199     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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