Exploring vibrato-motivated acoustic features for singer identification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 519-530

  Nwe, Tin Lay ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Music information retrieval; Music knowledge; Singer identification; Vibrato

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AVERAGE ERRORS; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; FREQUENCY SCALE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH CONFIDENCES; MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MUSIC KNOWLEDGE; PERIODIC FLUCTUATIONS; POPULAR MUSICS; POPULAR SONGS; SINGER IDENTIFICATION; SONG STRUCTURES; VIBRATO; VOCAL DETECTIONS;

ACOUSTICS; BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 37849032910     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876756     Document Type: Article

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