Glottal vocoding with frequency-warped time-weighted linear prediction

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 446-450

  Airaksinen, Manu ^a   Bollepalli, Bajibabu ^a   Pohjalainen, Jouni ^b   Alku, Paavo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency warping; linear prediction (LP); source filter model; speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; FORECASTING; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FREQUENCY WARPING; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; LINEAR PREDICTION; SOURCE FILTER SEPARATION; SOURCE-FILTER MODELS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPE MODELING; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST;

SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 85017575778     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2017.2665687     Document Type: Article

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