Cepstral coefficients and hidden Markov models reveal idiosyncratic voice characteristics in red deer (Cervus elaphus) stags

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4080-4089

  Reby, David ^a   André Obrecht, Régine ^b   Galinier, Arnaud ^b   Farinas, Jerome ^b   Cargnelutti, Bruno ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b IRIT   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIODIVERSITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; SOUND RECORDING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HOMOMORPHIC ANALYSIS; IDIOSYNCRATIC VOICE; RED DEER STAGS; VOCALIZATIONS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENT; CLASSIFICATION; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RED DEER; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTRUM; STAG; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; DEER; MARKOV CHAINS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33845352925     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2358006     Document Type: Article

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