A performance evaluation study of four wavelet algorithms for the pitch period estimation of speech signals

Information Sciences

Volumn 112, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 213-221

  Obaidat, M S ^a   Brodzik, Andy ^b   Sadoun, B ^c  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Scientific Software   (United States)

^c APPLIED SCIENCE PRIVATE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Performance evaluation; Pitch estimation; Speech processing; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION/IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PITCH PERIOD ESTIMATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032298963     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(98)10032-4     Document Type: Article

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