Compariative analysis and sysnthesis of formant trajectories of British and broad Australian accents

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2941-2944

  Yan, Qin ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^a   Ho, Ching Hsiang ^b   Rentzos, Dimitrios ^a   Turajlic, Emir ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; FEATURE ANALYSIS; FORMANT TRAJECTORY; FORMANT VALUES; LINEAR PREDICTION; MODEL-BASED OPC; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; TARGET POINT;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 85009200814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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