Noise estimation in voice signals using short-term cepstral analysis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1679-1690

  Murphy, Peter J ^a   Akande, Olatunji O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ASPIRATION; CEPSTRAL ANALYSIS; LOGARITHMIC SPECTRUM; NOISE ESTIMATION; VOCAL TRACT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GLOTTIS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOCAL CORD;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE;

EID: 34147107519     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2427123     Document Type: Article

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