Speech formant frequency estimation: evaluating a nonstationary analysis method

Signal Processing

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1655-1667

  Rao, Preeti ^a,b   Barman, A Das ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b Advanced Center For Research in Electronics Mumbai   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IIR FILTERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FORMANT TRACKING; NATURAL SPEECH VOWELS; NONSTATIONARY ANALYSIS METHOD; SPEECH FORMANT FREQUENCY;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034247337     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(00)00099-2     Document Type: Article

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