Among the various speech and language technologies (such as automatic speech
recognition, speech synthesis, speaker recognition, language and accent recognition, etc.) …

In speech recognition, phonemes have demonstrated their efficacy to model the words of a
language. While they are well defined for languages, their extension to human actions is not …

We propose a unified framework for segment quantization of speech at ultra low bit-rates of
150 bits/sec based on unit-selection principle using a modified one-pass dynamic …

In this paper, we first analyze an algorithm proposed recently by Lee and Cox, 2002, which
attempts to perform a segment unit-selection for segmental quantization and show how it …

In narrow-band speech coding, specifically in the low and ultra low bit-rate ranges, a series
of efficient quantization of the LP parameters using fixed-length as well as variable-length …

Speech is the most natural and quick mode of transforming and sharing information. To
automate the process of speech production and perception, many researches are carried …

In speech coding, segment vocoders offer good intelligibility at low bit rates. A segment
vocoder has four basic components 1) Segmentation of input speech 2) Segment …

In the modern day voice communication technology, the allocation of available bandwidth to
increasing number of users is a challenge. This paved way for the development of very low …

Segment based speech coders exploit the inter-frame redundancies of slowly varying
speech segments to achieve low bit rates. The Multiband Excitation (MBE) speech model …

We address the problem of automatic segmentation of the unit database in unit-selection
based TTS and propose template based forced alignment segmentation in the one-pass …