Subband-based group delay segmentation of spontaneous speech Into syllable-like units

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2004, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 2614-2625

  Nagarajan, T ^a   Murthy, H A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Group delay; Minimum phase signal; Subband based segmentation; Syllable

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

GROUP DELAY; MINIMUM-PHASE SIGNAL; SUBBAND-BASED SEGEMENTATION; SYLLABLE;

SPEECH;

EID: 14944343016     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865704406210     Document Type: Article

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