An approach to formant frequency estimation at low signal-to-noise ratio

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fattah, S A ^a,b   Zhu, W P ^a,b   Ahmad, M O ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autoregressive moving average processes; Correlation model; Formant frequency; Speech analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE PROCESSES; FORMANT FREQUENCY;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547500699     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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