Comparison of Two Inverse Filtering Methods in Parameterization of the Glottal Closing Phase Characteristics in Different Phonation Types

Journal of Voice

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 138-150

  Lehto, Laura ^a,b   Airas, Matti ^a   Björkner, Eva ^a,c   Sundberg, Johan ^c   Alku, Paavo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Closing quotient; Glottal flow; Inverse filtering; Normalized amplitude quotient

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FILTRATION; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONATION; SOUND; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; VOICE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33847290351     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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