Tonal vocalizations in a noisy environment: An approach to their semi-automatic analysis and examples of its application

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 284-288

  Mundry, Roger ^a   Sommer, Christina ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contour measurement; Software; Tonal vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 3042611338     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0001-37652004000200016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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