Publication detail

Advances in very low bit-rate speech coding using recognition and synthesis techniques

BAUDOIN, G., CAPMAN, F., ČERNOCKÝ, J., EL CHAMI, F., CHARBIT, M., CHOLLET, G., PETROVSKA-DELACRETAZ, D.

Original Title

Advances in very low bit-rate speech coding using recognition and synthesis techniques

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Many current systems for automatic speech processing rely on sub-word units defined using phonetic knowledge. Our paper presents an alternative to this approach -- determination of speech units using {ALISP} (Automatic Language Independent Speech Processing) techniques. Such units were experimentally tested in a very low bit rate phonetic vocoder, where mean bit rates of hundreds bps for unit encoding were achieved. Improvements of the proposed coder and some links to ``classical'' approaches of speech synthesis are discussed. Based on the results of comparison of an ALISP segmentation with a phonetic alignment, we comment on the potential use of automatically derived units in speech recognition, speaker verification and language identification.

Keywords

speech coding, very low bit-rate, data-driven units, ALISP

Authors

BAUDOIN, G., CAPMAN, F., ČERNOCKÝ, J., EL CHAMI, F., CHARBIT, M., CHOLLET, G., PETROVSKA-DELACRETAZ, D.

RIV year

2004

Released

30. 9. 2002

Publisher

Springer Verlag

ISBN

3-540-44129-8

Book

Proc. 5th International Conference Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD2002

ISBN

0302-9743

Periodical

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Year of study

2002

Number

2448

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

269

Pages to

276

Pages count

8

URL

http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cernocky/publi/2002/tsd2002_sympa.pdf

BibTex

@article{BUT41073,
  author="Genevieve {Baudoin} and Francois {Capman} and Jan {Černocký} and Fadi {El Chami} and Maurice {Charbit} and Gerard {Chollet} and Dijana {Petrovska-Delacretaz}",
  title="Advances in very low bit-rate speech coding using recognition and synthesis techniques",
  journal="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  year="2002",
  volume="2002",
  number="2448",
  pages="269--276",
  issn="0302-9743",
  url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cernocky/publi/2002/tsd2002_sympa.pdf"
}