Estimation of amplitude features of the glottal flow by inverse filtering speech pressure signals

Speech Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-132

  Alku, Paavo ^a,b   Vilkman, Erkki ^c   Laukkanen, Anne Maria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Inverse filtering; Voice source analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

GLOTTAL FLOW;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032075291     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(98)00004-1     Document Type: Article

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