Maximum A-Posteriori Probability Pitch Tracking in Noisy Environments Using Harmonic Model

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 76-87

  Tabrikian, Joseph ^a   Dubnov, Shlomo ^a   Dickalov, Yulya ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao bound; Harmonic model; MAP estimator; Markov model; Maximum likelihood; Noisy speech; PDA; Pitch detection; Pitch tracking; Speech denoising

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH CODING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CRAMER-RAO BOUND; PITCH DETECTION ALGORITHM (PDA); SPEECH DENOISING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0742290126     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.819950     Document Type: Article

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