Cooperation of regularization and speech heuristics to control automatic formant tracking

Speech Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 255-269

  Laprie, Yves ^a   Berger, Marie Odile ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Formant tracking; Speech analysis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC FORMANT TRACKING; IMAGE CONTOUR EXTRACTION METHOD; PEAK LINES; REGULARIZATION; SPEECH HEURISTICS; SPEECH KNOWLEDGE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030263065     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(96)00036-2     Document Type: Article

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