Automatic classification and speaker identification of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) vocalizations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 956-963

  Clemins, Patrick J ^a   Johnson, Michael T ^a   Leong, Kirsten M ^b,c   Savage, Anne ^b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DISNEY S ANIMAL KINGDOM   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HIDDEN MARKOW MODEL (HMM); MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS (MFCCS); NONHUMAN SPECIES; VOCALIZATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEPHANT; ENERGY; FEMALE; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 13544270854     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1847850     Document Type: Article

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