Periodicity estimation in synthesized phonation signals using cepstral rahmonic peaks

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1704-1713

  Murphy, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Harmonics to noise ratio; Rahmonic analysis; Voice signal aperiodicity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; JITTER; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TURBULENCE;

HARMONICS-TO-NOISE RATIO; RAHMONIC ANALYSIS; VOICE SIGNAL APERIODICITY; WAVESHAPE PERTURBATIONS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33751430923     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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