A multipitch tracking algorithm for noisy speech

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 229-241

  Wu, Mingyang ^a   Wang, DeLiang ^a   Brown, Guy J ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel selection; Correlogram; Hidden Markov model (HMM); Multipitch tracking; Noisy speech; Pitch detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHANNEL SELECTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MULTIPITCH TRACKING ALGORITHM; PITCH DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0037767686     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.811539     Document Type: Article

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