Estimation of voicing-character of speech spectra based on spectral shape

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 66-69

  Jančovič, Peter ^a   Köküer, Münevver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frame window function; Missing feature theory; Noisy speech; Short term spectra; Spectral shape; Speech recognition; Voiced unvoiced detection

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WHITE NOISE;

FRAME-WINDOW FUNCTION; MISSING-FEATURE THEORY; NOISY SPEECH;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33947274099     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2006.881517     Document Type: Article

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