Underpinning /nailon/: Automatic estimation of pitch range and speaker relative pitch

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4441 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 229-242

  Edlund, Jens ^a   Heldner, Mattias ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fundamental frequency (F0) distribution; Online incremental methods; Percentiles; Pitch extraction; Pitch range; Semitone transform; Speaker relative pitch; Speech technology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FREQUENCY BANDS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY (F0) DISTRIBUTION; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE INCREMENTAL METHODS; PITCH EXTRACTION; SEMITONE TRANSFORMS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 38149071635     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74122-0_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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