Measurement of vibrato in lyric singers

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 660-665

  Arroabarren, Ixone ^a   Zivanovic, Miroslav ^a   Bretos, José ^a   Ezcurra, Amaya ^a   Carlosena, Alfonso ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analytic signals; Musical signals; Singing voice; Time frequency analysis; Vibrato

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STEREOPHONIC RECORDINGS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

HILBERT TRANSFORMS; LYRIC SINGERS; MUSICAL SIGNALS; SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORM; SINGING VOICE; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; VIBRATO MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0036703738     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.803082     Document Type: Article

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