A new method for obtaining accurate estimates of vocal-tract filters and glottal waves from vowel sounds

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 445-455

  Deng, Huiqun ^a,b,c   Ward, Rabab Kreidieh ^a,b   Beddoes, Michael Peter ^a,b   Hodgson, Murray ^b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glottal wave; Parameter estimation; Speech analysis; Vocal tract filter

Indexed keywords

GLOTTAL WAVES; SOUND SIGNALS; VOCAL TRACT FILTERS; VOCALFOLD PARTING;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 33947116774     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.857811     Document Type: Article

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