Significance of joint features derived from the modified group delay function in speech processing

Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hegde, Rajesh M ^a   Murthy, Hema A ^b   Gadde, V R R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

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EID: 33845951461     PISSN: 16874714     EISSN: 16874722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/79032     Document Type: Article

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