Stress classification using subband based features

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 565-573

  Nwe, Tin Lay ^a   Foo, Say Wei ^b   De Silva, Liyanage C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Log Frequency Power Coefficients; Nonlinear frequency domain LFPC feature; Nonlinear time domain LFPC features; Stress classification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

STRESS CLASSIFICATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0038042806     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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