Spectral characterization of jitter, shimmer, and additive noise in synthetically generated voice signals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 978-988

  Murphy, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOICE;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERIODICITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0033966930     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428272     Document Type: Article

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