Singing Voice Identification Using Spectral Envelope Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 100-109

  Bartsch, Mark A ^a   Wakefield, Gregory H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Music information retrieval; Singer identification; Spectral analysis; Vocal tract transfer function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SINGER IDENTIFICATION; SPECTRAL ENVELOPE ESTIMATION; VOCAL TRACT TRANSFER FUNCTION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 2142696853     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.822637     Document Type: Article

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