Robust glottal source estimation based on joint source-filter model optimization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 492-501

  Fu, Qiang ^a,b,c   Murphy, Peter ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Convex optimization; Glottal inverse filtering; Source filter joint optimization; Source filter separation; Time varying vocal tract filter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; GLOTTAL INVERSE FILTERING; MODEL ESTIMATION; SOURCE-FILTER JOINT OPTIMIZATION; SOURCE-FILTER SEPARATION; TIME-VARYING VOCAL TRACT FILTER;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 33751247257     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.857807     Document Type: Article

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