On first rahmonic amplitude in the analysis of synthesized aperiodic voice signals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2896-2907

  Murphy, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

HARMONIC LEVELS; HARMONICS-TO-NOISE RATIOS; RAHMONICS; VOICE SIGNALS;

VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GEOMETRY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOICE; VOWEL;

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE;

EID: 33750298963     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2355483     Document Type: Article

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