A performance assessment of objective measures for evaluating the quality of glottal waveform estimates

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-66

  Moore, E ^a   Torres, J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glottal waveform; Inverse filtering; Voice source

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

GLOTTAL WAVEFORMS; INVERSE FILTERING; VOICE SOURCES;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348819976     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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