Robust formant tracking for continuous speech with speaker variability

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 435-444

  Mustafa, Kamran ^b,c   Bruce, Ian C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Siemens Canada Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

Formant estimation; Hearing aids; Speech analysis; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEARING AIDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

FORMANT TRACKING; GENDER DETECTORS; INTERBANKS; SPEAKER VARIABILITY;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947155741     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.855840     Document Type: Article

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