Estimation of the instantaneous pitch of speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 813-822

  Resch, Barbara ^a,b   Nilsson, Mattias ^a,c   Ekman, Anders ^a   Kleijn, W Bastiaan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Coding Technologies ^*  (Sweden)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Instantaneous pitch; Pitch estimation; Pitch synchronous processing; Splines

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATIONS; B-SPLINE EXPANSIONS; CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATIONS; INSTANTANEOUS PITCH; PITCH ESTIMATION; PITCH- SYNCHRONOUS PROCESSING; PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; REAL-SPEECH SIGNALS; SHORT DURATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPLINES;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 37649002185     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.885242     Document Type: Article

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