Quantitative assessment of the use of continuous wavelet transform in the analysis of the fundamental frequency disturbance of the synthetic voice

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 553-559

  Parraga, Adriane ^a   Zaro, Milton A ^a   Schuck Jr , Adalberto ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b IEEE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis of voice; Continuous wavelet transform; Fundamental frequency analysis; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; JITTER; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY DISTURBANCE; SHIMMER ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ERROR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VOICE;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL;

EID: 0036752721     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(02)00050-4     Document Type: Article

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